Lafora and Trétiakoff: the naming of the inclusion bodies discovered by Lewy
ABSTRACT Fritz Heinrich Jakob Lewy described, for the first time, in 1912, novel peculiar inclusions in neurons of certain brain nuclei in patients with Paralysis agitans, and compared his finding to the amyloid bodies described by Lafora one year before. Gonzalo Rodriguez Lafora studied one patient...
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| Language: | English |
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Academia Brasileira de Neurologia (ABNEURO)
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| Series: | Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2017001000751&lng=en&tlng=en |