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Familial infantile bilateral striatal necrosis
8 Oct 2002
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BACKGROUND: Infantile bilateral striatal necrosis (IBSN) encompasses several syndromes of bilateral symmetric, spongy degeneration of the caudate nucleus, putamen, and globus pallidus. The familial form of IBSN is rare, and inheritance is either autosomal recessive or maternal. METHOD: The authors describe an Israeli Bedouin kindred in which 15 children born to consanguineous parents were affected with familial...
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