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Prenatal diagnosis of variant late infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (vLINCL[Finnish]; CLN5).
Prenatal diagnosis - 1 Jul 1999
Rapola J, Lähdetie J, Isosomppi J, Helminen P, Penttinen M, Järvelä I
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The first prenatal diagnosis of variant late infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (vLINCL[Finnish]; CLN5) is reported. The disease belongs to the group of progressive encephalopathies in children with psycho-motor deterioration, visual failure and premature death. Neurons and several extraneural cells harbour lysosomal inclusions showing accumulation of material with histochemical characteristics of ceroid...
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