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Diagnostic considerations in juvenile parkinsonism.
Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society - 1 Feb 2004
Paviour Dominic C, Surtees Robert A H, Lees Andrew J
Abstract excerpt
Juvenile parkinsonism (JP) describes patients in whom the clinical features of parkinsonism manifest before 21 years of age. Many reported cases that had a good response to levodopa have proved to have autosomal recessive juvenile parkinsonism (AR-JP) due to mutations in the parkin gene. With the...
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