Adult-Onset leukodystrophy: Review of 3 clinicopathologic phenotypes and a proposed classification

Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology

Volumn 72, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1090-1103

  Alturkustani, Murad ^a,b   Sharma, Manas ^a   Hammond, Robert ^a   Ang, Lee Cyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Adult onset autosomal dominant leukodystrophy; Adult onset leukodystrophy; Adult onset leukoencephalopathy leukodystrophy with axonal spheroids; Hereditary diffuse leukoencephalopathy with spheroids; Orthochromatic leukodystrophy; Pigmented glia

Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN; MYELIN;

ADULT; ADULT ONSET LEUKODYSTROPHY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; ATAXIC GAIT; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CHERRY RED SPOT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; FOOT PAIN; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAMIN B1 GENE; LEG CRAMP; LEUKODYSTROPHY; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEUROPATHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NYSTAGMUS; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SEIZURE; SPASTICITY; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; TREMOR; URINE INCONTINENCE; VISUAL DISORDER; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; BRAIN; DEMYELINATING DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROGLIA;

EID: 84887094077     PISSN: 00223069     EISSN: 15546578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NEN.0000000000000008     Document Type: Article

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