Leigh syndrome: neuropathology and pathogenesis.

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Leigh syndrome (LS) is the most common pediatric presentation of a defined mitochondrial disease. This progressive encephalopathy is characterized pathologically by the development of bilateral symmetrical lesions in the brainstem and basal ganglia that show gliosis, vacuolation, capillary proliferation, relative neuronal preservation, and by hyperlacticacidemia in the blood and/or cerebrospinal fluid....

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