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Leukoencephalopathy with brain stem and spinal cord involvement and lactate elevation in the first Polish patient.
Brain & development - 1 Oct 2011
Mierzewska Hanna, van der Knaap Marjo S, Scheper Gert C, Bekiesinska-Figatowska Monika, Szczepanik Elzbieta, Jurkiewicz Elzbieta
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Leukoencephalopathy with brain stem and spinal cord involvement and elevated white matter lactate (LBSL) is a very rare autosomal recessive mitochondrial disorder. Clinically patients have slowly progressive ataxia, pyramidal syndrome and dorsal column dysfunction. The disease is defined on the basis of characteristic abnormalities observed on magnetic resonance imaging such as inhomogeneous, spotty involvement...
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