Teaching Neuro <i>Images</i> : White matter hypomyelination and progressive calcifications in cerebral folate deficiency

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Cerebral folate transport deficiency is caused by homozygous or compound heterozygous mutations of the FOLR1 gene.1 Recently, we found a homozygous FOLR1 mutation (NM_016725.2: c.562C>G p.[Leu188Val]) in a 2.5-year-old boy with febrile and nonfebrile status epilepticus, progressive ataxia, and progressive MRI abnormalities. Until the diagnosis was made, serial MRI had been performed (figure). CSF analysis...

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