Parkinsonism & Related Disorders
Volume 15, Issue 8 , Pages 614-616 , September 2009

Focal brain glucose hypermetabolism in myoclonus-dystonia syndrome caused by an epsilon-sarcoglycan gene mutation

Received 9 September 2008

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PII: S1353-8020(08)00333-7

doi: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2008.11.007

Parkinsonism & Related Disorders
Volume 15, Issue 8 , Pages 614-616 , September 2009

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