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Alternating hemiplegia of childhood or familial hemiplegic migraine? A novel ATP1A2 mutation.
Annals of neurology - 1 Jun 2004
Swoboda Kathryn J, Kanavakis Emmanuel, Xaidara Athina, Johnson Justine E, Leppert Mark F, Schlesinger-Massart Mylynda B, Ptacek Louis J, Silver Kenneth, Youroukos Sotiris
Abstract excerpt
Alternating hemiplegia of childhood (AHC) is typically distinguished from familial hemiplegic migraine (FHM) by infantile onset of the characteristic symptoms and high prevalence of associated neurological deficits that become increasingly obvious with age. Expansion of the clinical spectrum in FHM recently has begun to blur the distinction between these disorders. We report a novel ATP1A2 mutation in a kindred...
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