Fickler-Winkler syndrome
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Autosomal recessive variant of the olivopontocerebellar syndrome II. It differs from the Menzel type and the Dejerine-Thomas atrophy by the the lack of involuntary movements.
Bibliography
- A. Fickler:
Klinische und pathologisch-anatomische Beiträge zu den Erkrankungen des Kleinhirns.
Deutsche Zeitschrift für Nervenheilkunde, 1911, 41: 306-375.
- C. Winkler:
A case of olivopontine cerebellar atrophy and our conceptions of neo- and pale-cerebellum.
Schweizer Archiv für Neurologie und Psychiatrie, Zurich, 1923, 13: 196-204.
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