Article
Machado-Joseph disease versus hereditary spastic paraplegia: case report.
Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria - 1 Sept 2001
Teive H A, Iwamoto F M, Camargo C H, Lopes-Cendes I, Werneck L C
Abstract excerpt
Machado-Joseph disease (MJD) is the most common autosomal dominant spinocerebellar ataxia and presents great phenotypic variability. MJD presenting with spastic paraparesis was recently described in Japanese patients. We report the case of 41-year-old woman with the phenotype of complicated hereditary spastic paraplegia. Her father died at the age of 56 years due to an undiagnosed progressive neurological disease...
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