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Familial acute necrotizing encephalopathy without RANBP2 mutation: Poor outcome.
Pediatrics international : official journal of the Japan Pediatric Society - 1 Nov 2016
Nishimura Naoko, Higuchi Yoshihisa, Kimura Nobusuke, Nozaki Fumihito, Kumada Tomohiro, Hoshino Ai, Saitoh Makiko, Mizuguchi Masashi
Abstract excerpt
Most childhood cases of acute necrotizing encephalopathy (ANE) involve neither family history nor recurrence. ANE occasionally occurs, however, as a familial disorder or recurs in Caucasian patients. A mutation of RAN-binding protein 2 (RANBP2) has been discovered in more than one half of familial or recurrent ANE patients. In contrast, there has been no report of this mutation in East Asia. Here, we report the...
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