[Striato-nigral degeneration. Apropos of a clinical, therapeutic, and anatomic study of 2 cases]

Rev Neurol (Paris). 1976 Feb;132(2):137-56.
[Article in French]

Abstract

The authors report two anatomo-clinical cases of striato-nigral degeneration with trial of L-Dopa; one of them included an olivoponto-cerebellar degeneration. The features of this degeneration are compared with the literature and related to heredo-degenerative diseases of the nervous system.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Brain Diseases / pathology*
  • Brain Stem / pathology
  • Cerebellar Cortex / pathology
  • Corpus Striatum*
  • Female
  • Globus Pallidus / pathology
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Parkinson Disease / drug therapy
  • Parkinson Disease / physiopathology
  • Purkinje Cells / pathology
  • Putamen / ultrastructure
  • Substantia Nigra* / ultrastructure