Adult-Onset Cerebral Adrenoleukodystrophy Without Adrenal Gland Involvement
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Kumar et al investigated the magnetic resonance findings of the brain and spinal cord in a large series of patients with adult-onset adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD), and described tract involvement in the corticospinal, spinothalamic, visual, and auditory pathways (1). Some authors have noticed tract demy-elination involving the cerebellar peduncles (2,3). We describe a case of adult-onset ALD with ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cureus
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2168-8184
DOI: 10.7759/cureus.9813