Familial Spastic Paraparesis as a Mitochondrial Disorder
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Tropical spastic paraparesis.
Human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) is the cause of endemic tropical spastic paraparesis (TSP) or HTLV-I-associated myelopathy (HAM). Because TSP/HAM is not a fatal disease, the neuropathology of this disease, albeit relatively well understood, is based on the examination of just a few incidental cases. We summarise our experience with the neuropathology of tropical spastic parapare...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Pediatric Neurology Briefs
سال: 1992
ISSN: 2166-6482,1043-3155
DOI: 10.15844/pedneurbriefs-6-2-6