Clinical Reasoning: A young man with progressive subcortical lesions and optic nerve atrophy

Neurology

Volumn 79, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Komatsuzaki, Shoko ^a   Sakamoto, Osamu ^a   Fuse, Nobuo ^b   Uematsu, Mitsugu ^a   Matsubara, Yoichi ^a   Ohura, Toshihiro ^a,c  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c SENDAI CITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 METHYLCITRIC ACID; ARGININE; BENZOIC ACID; CARNITINE; CARVEDILOL; CITRIC ACID; FUROSEMIDE; HYDRACRYLIC ACID; METRONIDAZOLE; PROPIONIC ACID; PROPIONYL COENZYME A CARBOXYLASE; SPIRONOLACTONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN DAMAGE; CALORIE; CASE REPORT; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; DIET THERAPY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISORDERS OF AMINO ACID AND PROTEIN METABOLISM; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EXCHANGE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEEDING DISORDER; FIBROBLAST; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; HYPERAMMONEMIA; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; LONG TERM CARE; LUNG EDEMA; MALE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROPIONIC ACIDURIA; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN RESTRICTION; PUTAMEN; REHYDRATION; TACHYPNEA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; URINALYSIS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84866119351     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3182648bb6     Document Type: Article

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