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Hypotonia and Infantile Spasms: A New Phenotype of Coenzyme Q10 Deficiency?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2014

R. J. Huntsman ,
E. G. Lemire  and
C. P. Dunham
R. J. Huntsman*
Affiliation:
Division of Pediatric Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK
E. G. Lemire
Affiliation:
Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK
C. P. Dunham
Affiliation:
Division of Anatomic Pathology, Children and Women's Health Center of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
*
Division of Pediatric Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, Royal University Hospital, 103 Hospital Drive, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, S7N 0W8, Canada.
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Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , January 2009 , pp. 105 - 108
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