Adult onset leucodystrophy with neuroaxonal spheroids and pigmented glia (ALSP): Report of a new kindred

Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 95-100

  Tan, K ^a   Brewer, J ^b   Rowe, D B ^b,d   Jenkins, B ^b   Powers, J M ^e   Buckland, M E ^a,c  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b ROYAL NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e Cancer Center Rochester   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULT ONSET LEUKODYSTROPHY WITH NEUROAXONAL SPHEROID AND PIGMENTED GLIA; APRAXIA; ATAXIA; AUTOPSY; BRAIN DEGENERATION; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; BULBAR PARALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; DISEASE COURSE; DYSARTHRIA; FAMILY HISTORY; GASTROSTOMY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LETTER; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MENTAL INSTABILITY; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTICEMIA; TENDON REFLEX; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN; HEREDITARY CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEMYELINATING DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIGREE;

EID: 84855475564     PISSN: 03051846     EISSN: 13652990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2990.2011.01173.x     Document Type: Letter

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