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Early-onset Lafora body disease.
Brain : a journal of neurology - 1 Sept 2012
Turnbull Julie, Girard Jean-Marie, Lohi Hannes, Chan Elayne M, Wang Peixiang, Tiberia Erica, Omer Salah, Ahmed Mushtaq, Bennett Christopher, Chakrabarty Aruna, Tyagi Atul, Liu Yan, Pencea Nela, Zhao XiaoChu, Scherer Stephen W, Ackerley Cameron A, Minassian Berge A
Abstract excerpt
The most common progressive myoclonus epilepsies are the late infantile and late infantile-variant neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses (onset before the age of 6 years), Unverricht-Lundborg disease (onset after the age of 6 years) and Lafora disease. Lafora disease is a distinct disorder with uniform course: onset in teenage years, followed by progressively worsening myoclonus, seizures, visual hallucinations and...
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