A case of childhood stiff-person syndrome with striatal lesions: A possible entity distinct from the classical adult form

Brain and Development

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 575-578

  Sanefuji, Masafumi ^a   Torisu, Hiroyuki ^a   Kira, Ryutaro ^a   Yamashita, Hiroshi ^a   Ejima, Kazuna ^a   Shigeto, Hiroshi ^a   Takada, Yui ^a   Yoshida, Keiko ^a   Hara, Toshiro ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Child; Diffusion weighted imaging; MRI; SPECT; Stiff person syndrome; Striatum

Indexed keywords

BACLOFEN; BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CLONAZEPAM; DIAZEPAM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; STEROID;

ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; DELTA RHYTHM; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; LEARNING DISORDER; LETHARGY; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; MUSCLE SPASM; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PAIN; PERSEVERATION; PHYSICAL STRESS; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STIFF MAN SYNDROME; WALKING DIFFICULTY;

CHILD; CORPUS STRIATUM; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; LETHARGY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; STIFF-PERSON SYNDROME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 84876782805     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: 18727131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.braindev.2012.08.003     Document Type: Article

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