False-positive SCA8 gene test in a patient with pathologically proven multiple system atrophy

Multiple system atrophy in a patient wit

Multiple system atrophy in a patient with the spinocerebellar ataxia 3 gene mutation

✍ Melissa J. Nirenberg; Jenny Libien; Jean-Paul Vonsattel; Stanley Fahn 📂 Article 📅 2007 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 93 KB 👁 1 views

## Abstract The cerebellar variant of multiple system atrophy (MSA‐C) has overlapping clinical features with the hereditary spinocerebellar ataxias (SCAs), but can usually be distinguished on a clinical basis. We describe a patient who developed a sporadic, late‐onset, rapidly progressive neurodege