Late-onset Leigh syndrome with myoclonic epilepsy with ragged-red fibers

Brain and Development

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 582-585

  Monden, Yukifumi ^a   Mori, Masato ^a   Kuwajima, Mari ^a   Goto, Tamako ^a   Yamagata, Takanori ^a   Momoi, Mariko Y ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Leigh syndrome; M.8344A>G; MERRF

Indexed keywords

CLONAZEPAM; ETHOSUXIMIDE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; VALPROIC ACID;

ARTICLE; ATAXIA; ATONIC SEIZURE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN STEM; BULBAR PARALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COMA; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; GENE MUTATION; HOMOPLASY; HUMAN; LEIGH DISEASE; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MERRF SYNDROME; MYOCLONUS DYSTONIA; MYOCLONUS SEIZURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHENOTYPE; PNEUMONIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

BRAIN; CHILD; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LEIGH DISEASE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MERRF SYNDROME; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH;

EID: 84876815263     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: 18727131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.braindev.2012.08.006     Document Type: Article

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