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Spinocerebellar ataxia type 4 (SCA4): Initial pathoanatomical study reveals widespread cerebellar and brainstem degeneration.
Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) - 1 Jul 2006
Hellenbroich Y, Gierga K, Reusche E, Schwinger E, Deller T, de Vos R A I, Zühlke C, Rüb U
Abstract excerpt
Spinocerebellar ataxia type 4 (SCA4), also known as 'hereditary ataxia with sensory neuropathy', represents a very rare, progressive and untreatable form of an autosomal dominant inherited cerebellar ataxia (ADCA). Due to a lack of autopsy cases, no neuropathological or clinicopathological studies had yet been performed in SCA4. In the present study, the first available cerebellar and brainstem tissue of a...
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