Isolated deficiency of vitamin E with progressive neurologic deterioration
- 1 March 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Neurology
- Vol. 37 (3) , 538
- https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.37.3.538
Abstract
We studied a 19-year-old man with vitamin E deficiency without intestinal fat malabsorption. In addition to recognized neurologic complications of vitamin E deficiency, he had dystonic posturing and bradykinesia.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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