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Infant with type A Niemann Pick disease and undetectable Niemann Pick cells in bone marrow.
Indian pediatrics - 1 Jun 2012
Mukherjee Sharmila Banerjee, Pandey Meenu, Kapoor Seema, Priya T Padma
Abstract excerpt
Bone marrow aspiration is the preliminary investigation in Niemann Pick disease type A when enzyme assays and mutation studies are unavailable. We report an infant with typical phenotype and enzyme deficiency, but undetectable Niemann Pick cells in the bone marrow. A new mutation R542X in SMPD gene was also detected.
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