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Clinical features of familial moyamoya disease.
Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery - 1 Mar 2006
Nanba Rina, Kuroda Satoshi, Tada Mitsuhiro, Ishikawa Tatsuya, Houkin Kiyohiro, Iwasaki Yoshinobu
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTS: This study aims to clarify the genetic background of moyamoya disease by comparing clinical features between familial and sporadic cases to reveal the responsible genes for familial moyamoya disease. METHODS: This study included 155 Japanese patients with moyamoya disease, which included 24 familial cases (10 family pedigrees) and 131 sporadic cases. Clinical features were compared between the familial...
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