Diagnostic approach to childhood-onset cerebellar atrophy: A 10-year retrospective study of 300 patients

Journal of Child Neurology

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1121-1132

  Al Maawali, Almundher ^a   Blaser, Susan ^a   Yoon, Grace ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

ataxia; cerebellar atrophy; ceroid lipofuscinosis; diagnosis; gangliosidosis; genetics; mitochondrial; telangiectasia

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; BETA N ACETYLHEXOSAMINIDASE A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENOLEUKODYSTROPHY; ADULT; ALEXANDER DISEASE; ARTHROGRYPOSIS; ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN DISEASE; CAPSULA INTERNA; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM ATROPHY; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COCKAYNE SYNDROME; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONGENITAL DISORDER OF GLYCOSYLATION; CONSANGUINITY; DEMYELINATION; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; DYSOSTOSIS; FEMALE; GANGLION; GLYCOSYLATION; GM2 GANGLIOSIDOSIS; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEREDITARY ATAXIA; HUMAN; HYPOBETALIPOPROTEINEMIA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INFANT; KEARNS SAYRE SYNDROME; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; LEBER HEREDITARY OPTIC NEUROPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANNOSIDOSIS; MARINESCO SJOGREN SYNDROME; METACHROMATIC LEUKODYSTROPHY; METHYLMALONIC ACIDURIA; MITOCHONDRIAL MYOPATHY; MYELIN DEFICIENCY; NARP SYNDROME; NEUROAXONAL DYSTROPHY; NEUROIMAGING; NEURONAL CEROID LIPOFUSCINOSIS; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PELIZAEUS MERZBACHER DISEASE; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SILVER RUSSELL SYNDROME; SPINAL CORD ATROPHY; THALAMUS; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ATROPHY; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CEREBELLUM; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GANGLIOSIDOSES, GM2; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84865631819     PISSN: 08830738     EISSN: 17088283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0883073812448680     Document Type: Conference Paper

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