Structural characteristics of the central nervous system in Friedreich ataxia: an in vivo spinal cord and brain MRI study

J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2019 May;90(5):615-617. doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2018-318422. Epub 2018 Jun 26.

Imis Dogan^#^{1

2}, Sandro Romanzetti^#^{1

2}, Claire Didszun¹, Shahram Mirzazade^{1

2}, Dagmar Timmann³, Carsten Saft⁴, Ludger Schöls^{5

6}, Matthis Synofzik^{5

6}, Ilaria A Giordano^{7

8}, Thomas Klockgether^{7

8}, Jörg B Schulz^{1

2}, Kathrin Reetz^{9

2}

¹ Department of Neurology, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.
² JARA-BRAIN Institute Molecular Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, Forschungszentrum Jülich, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.
³ Department of Neurology, Essen University Hospital, Essen, Germany.
⁴ Department of Neurology, Huntington Centre NRW, St Josef Hospital, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Bochum, Germany.
⁵ Department of Neurology, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research (HIH), Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany.
⁶ German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Tübingen, Germany.
⁷ Department of Neurology, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
⁸ German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Germany.
⁹ Department of Neurology, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany kreetz@ukaachen.de.

^# Contributed equally.

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Keywords: ataxia; brainstem; cerebellum; magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); spinal cord.

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