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Clinical presentation of juvenile Huntington disease.
Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria - 1 Mar 2006
Ruocco Heloísa H, Lopes-Cendes Iscia, Laurito Tiago L, Li Li M, Cendes Fernando
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To describe the clinical presentation a group of patients with juvenile onset of Huntington disease. METHOD: All patients were interviewed following a structured clinical questionnaire. Patients were genotyped for the trinucleotide cytosine-adenine-guanine (CAG) repeat in the Huntington Disease gene. High resolution brain MRI was performed in all patients. RESULTS: We identified 4 patients with...
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