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Reduction of striatal glucose metabolism in McLeod choreoacanthocytosis.
Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry - 1 Apr 2001
Oechsner M, Buchert R, Beyer W, Danek A
Abstract excerpt
McLeod syndrome is a distinct form of neuroacanthocytosis. Its defining feature is the depression of erythrocyte Kell antigens. The underlying X chromosomal mutations cause a dysfunction of an erythrocyte membrane protein Kx. A choreatic movement disorder with caudate atrophy in CT and MRI has been reported in McLeod syndrome later in the course of the disease. Positron emission tomography with 18F-deoxyglucose...
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