The epidemiology of intermittent and chronic ataxia in children in Manitoba, Canada

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 341-347

  Salman, Michael S ^a   Lee, Esther J ^a   Tjahjadi, Anindita ^a   Chodirker, Bernard N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA; CANADA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHRONIC ATAXIA; COMORBIDITY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DISEASE DURATION; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; EPILEPSY; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; FRIEDREICH ATAXIA; GENETIC DISORDER; HAPPY PUPPET SYNDROME; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERMITTENT ATAXIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; ONSET AGE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE OF ONSET; ANGELMAN SYNDROME; ATAXIA; ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MANITOBA; MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASES; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875054158     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/dmcn.12081     Document Type: Article

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