Recognizable phenotypes associated with intracranial calcification

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 46-57

  Livingston, John H ^a   Stivaros, Stavros ^b   Van Der Knaap, Marjo S ^c   Crow, Yanick J ^b  

^a LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AICARDI GOUTIERES SYNDROME; ALEXANDER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CALCIFICATION; BRAIN STEM; CAPSULA INTERNA; CHILD; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DENTATE NUCLEUS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; ENCEPHALOMALACIA; FAHR DISEASE; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; GLOBOID CELL LEUKODYSTROPHY; GRAY MATTER; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANTILE SPASM; LEARNING DISORDER; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; LEUKOMALACIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT ATROPHIC PAPULOSIS; MICROANGIOPATHY; MICROGYRIA; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; MYELINATION; NEUROIMAGING; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PHENOTYPE; PORENCEPHALY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZENCEPHALY; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; TETRASOMY; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN DISEASES; CALCINOSIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLLAGEN TYPE IV; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MALFORMATIONS OF CORTICAL DEVELOPMENT; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATIONS; OBSERVATION; PHENOTYPE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871164748     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2012.04437.x     Document Type: Article

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