• DOI:10.1212/WNL.42.11.2214
Corpus ID: 12790390

Racial hygiene, active euthanasia, and Julius Hallervorden

@article{Shevell1992RacialHA,
  title={Racial hygiene, active euthanasia, and Julius Hallervorden},
  author={M. Shevell},
  journal={Neurology},
  year={1992},
  volume={42},
  pages={2214 - 2214}
}

• M. Shevell
• Published 1992
• Psychology, Medicine
• Neurology

“Hallervorden-Spatz disease” represents a distinctive and readily recognizable eponym to neurologists and pediatricians; it denotes a rare, inherited, autosomal recessive disorder tha t is perhaps a neuraxonal dystrophy, characterized by the childhood onset of unrelenting progressive gait disturbance, spasticity, and dementia associated with prominent extrapyramidal signs such as dystonia, chorea, and athetosis.lZ2 Pathologic examination reveals iron deposition in the basal ganglia and widely… Expand