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Atypical juvenile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis with granular osmiophilic deposit-like inclusions in the autonomic nerve cells of the gut wall.
Acta neuropathologica - 1 Mar 1998
Aberg L, Järvelä I, Rapola J, Autti T, Kirveskari E, Lappi M, Sipilä L, Santavuori P
Abstract excerpt
In this 8-year-old boy, who had been exposed to alcohol and oxazepam during pregnancy, visual failure was the first symptom of a neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (NCL) disorder, noticed at the age of 5 years. Ophthalmological examinations revealed a cystic type of macular degeneration, which would be more likely to be found in variant late infantile NCL. However, vacuolated lymphocytes were found in peripheral...
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