A case of congenital axonal neuropathy associated with West syndrome

Brain and Development

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 692-696

  Mizuno, Tomoko ^a   Sasaki, Masayuki ^a   Komaki, Hirofumi ^a   Sakuma, Hiroshi ^a   Saito, Yoshiaki ^a   Nakagawa, Eiji ^a   Sugai, Kenji ^a   Saito, Yuko ^a   Nonaka, Ikuya ^b   Sawaishi, Yukio ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE   (Japan)

^c Akita Prefectural Center on Development and Disability   (Japan)

Author keywords

Axonal neuropathy; Congenital; Resequence analysis; West syndrome

Indexed keywords

CLONAZEPAM; NITRAZEPAM; PYRIDOXINE; VALPROIC ACID; ZONISAMIDE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM ATROPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL AXONAL NEUROPATHY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HYPOPLASIA; HYPSARRHYTHMIA; INFANT; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROGNATHIA; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; NERVE BIOPSY; NEUROPATHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SEIZURE; SURAL NERVE; TENDON REFLEX; WEST SYNDROME; WHITE MATTER;

AXONS; FEMALE; HEREDITARY SENSORY AND AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHIES; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; SPASMS, INFANTILE;

EID: 79960905073     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: 18727131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.braindev.2010.11.009     Document Type: Article

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