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MRI, clinical, and biochemical features of partial pyruvate carboxylase deficiency.
Journal of child neurology - 1 Oct 1994
Higgins J J, Glasgow A M, Lusk M, Kerr D S
Abstract excerpt
We report a boy with a partial deficiency of pyruvate carboxylase as documented in enzyme assays of skin fibroblasts, lymphocytes, and hepatic tissue. Magnetic resonance imaging at age 20 months demonstrated a leukodystrophic process involving the brain stem and subcortical white matter, which, except for the brain stem, improved after biotin treatment. The lymphocyte pyruvate carboxylase activity of both...
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