Journal of the Neurological Sciences
Volume 290, Issue 1 , Pages 183-185 , 15 March 2010

A syndrome of the dentate nucleus mimicking psychogenic ataxia

  • Farid Salih

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Charité-University Medicine Berlin, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Dept. of Neurology, Charité-University Medicine Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353 Berlin, Germany. Tel.: +49 30 450 560011; fax: +49 30 450 560904.
    • Equal contribution.
    • ,
  • Eva Breuer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Charité-University Medicine Berlin, Germany
    • Equal contribution.
    • ,
  • Daniel Harnack

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Charité-University Medicine Berlin, Germany
    • ,
  • Karl-Titus Hoffmann

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Charité-University Medicine Berlin, Germany
    • ,
  • Christoph J. Ploner

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Charité-University Medicine Berlin, Germany

Received 18 February 2009 ,Revised 17 September 2009 ,Accepted 19 October 2009.

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PII: S0022-510X(09)00935-6

doi: 10.1016/j.jns.2009.10.017

Journal of the Neurological Sciences
Volume 290, Issue 1 , Pages 183-185 , 15 March 2010

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