Article
Complicated hereditary spastic paraparesis with cerebral white matter lesions.
American journal of medical genetics - 1 Jun 1990
Gutmann D H, Fischbeck K H, Kamholz J
Abstract excerpt
A family is described with 5 males in a single generation affected with a previously undescribed complicated form of hereditary spastic paraparesis (HSP). The disease is characterized by speech difficulties, lower limb spasticity and hyper-reflexia, mental retardation, cerebellar ataxia, and tremor. The disease starts in the first decade of life and progresses for 3 to 6 years before stabilizing. Magnetic...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Brain Diseases
- Female
- Genes, Recessive
- Genetic Linkage
- Genetic Variation
- Humans
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Paraparesis, Tropical Spastic
