A 22-year-old man presented with progressive gait instability, tremor, and dysarthria since childhood. Electrophysiologic studies revealed a sensorimotor polyneuropathy. Laboratoty studies documented vitamin E deficiency; however, no gastrointestinal, hepatic, or lipoprotein disorder could be identi
Ataxia with isolated vitamin E deficiency and retinitis pigmentosa
β Scribed by Takayoshi Shimohata; Hidetoshi Date; Hideaki Ishiguro; Takashi Suzuki; Hiroki Takano; Hajime Tanaka; Shoji Tsuji; Kohichi Hirota
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 127 KB
- Volume
- 43
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0364-5134
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