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[Megalencephalic leukoencephalopathy with cysts -the clinical importance in the genetic era].
Revista de neurologia - 16 Nov 2020
Ballesteros-Cogollos V, Morell-García M, Aleu Pérez-Gramunt M, Montesinos-Sanchís E, Mirón-Mombiela R, Martínez-Martínez J C, Tomás-Vila M, Martínez-Castellano F
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INTRODUCTION: Megalencephalic leukoencephalopathy with cysts is a leukodystrophy of genetic origin that produces an alteration in the water and ion homeostasis in the brain, generating vacuolar forms and chronic oedema in the white matter with progressive neurological deterioration. It should be suspected in infants who present progressive macrocephaly during the first year of life, motor retardation and...
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