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Unusual ribbon-like periventricular heterotopia with congenital cataracts in a Japanese girl.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 1 Mar 2012
Tsuburaya Rie, Uematsu Mitsugu, Kikuchi Atsuo, Hino-Fukuyo Naomi, Kunishima Shinji, Kato Mitsuhiro, Haginoya Kazuhiro, Tsuchiya Shigeru
Abstract excerpt
Periventricular heterotopia (PH), clumps of neurons mislocated beside the ventricle, is caused by failure to initiate migration during embryogenesis. We report on a 32-month-old Japanese girl with a unique subtype of PH, namely ribbon-like PH. The patient presented with severe psychomotor developmental delay, intractable epilepsy, and congenital cataracts and developed West syndrome phenotype. Brain magnetic...
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