Late-onset Boucher-Neuhäuser syndrome (late BNS) associated with white-matter changes: A report of two cases and review of literature

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 82, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 888-891

  Kate, Mahesh Pundlik ^a   Kesavadas, Chandrasekharan ^a   Nair, Muralidharan ^a   Krishnan, Syam ^a   Soman, Manoj ^b   Singh, Atampreet ^a  

^a SREE CHITRA TIRUNAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b Chaithanya Eye Hospital and Research Institute   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOUCHER NEUHAUSER SYNDROME; BRAIN CORTEX ATROPHY; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CEREBELLUM ATROPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DYSARTHRIA; FAMILY STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTELLIGENCE TEST; LIMB TREMOR; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIMARY AMENORRHEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; SCOLIOSIS; THINKING IMPAIRMENT; WHITE MATTER;

AGE OF ONSET; AMENORRHEA; ATROPHY; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CEREBELLUM; EYE DISEASES, HEREDITARY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOGONADISM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION; SYNDROME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960124723     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2009.196790     Document Type: Article

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