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MELAS syndrome: correlation between clinical features and molecular genetic analysis.
Acta neurologica Scandinavica - 1 Nov 1994
Liou C W, Huang C C, Chee E C, Jong Y J, Tsai J L, Pang C Y, Lee H C, Wei Y H
Abstract excerpt
The clinical manifestations and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations in a Taiwanese family with a female proband exhibiting mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes syndrome are reported. Clinically, the proband had a stroke-like episode with right hemiparesis, hemianopsia and mental dysfunction as well as short stature, hearing impairments, and elevated lactate levels....
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