The autosomal recessive congenital intrauterine infection-like syndrome of microcephaly, intracranial calcification, and CNS disease: Report of another Bedouin family

Clinical Dysmorphology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 127-130

  Ai Dabbous, R ^a,b   Sabry, M A ^c   Farah, S ^b   Ai Awadi, S A ^a   Simeonov, S ^b   Farag, T I ^c  

^a AL SABAH HOSPITAL   (Kuwait)

^b Neurology ^*  (Kuwait)

^c IBN SINA HOSPITAL   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Bedouin; CNS disease; Infection like syndrome; Intracranial calcification; Microcephaly

Indexed keywords

ARAB; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BRACHYCEPHALY; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CALCIFICATION; BRAIN VENTRICLE DILATATION; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORPUS CALLOSUM AGENESIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; MICROCEPHALY; MUSCLE HYPERTONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; SYNDROME; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ARABS; BRAIN; CALCINOSIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GENES, RECESSIVE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFECTION; KUWAIT; MALE; MICROCEPHALY; SYNDROME; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031953467     PISSN: 09628827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019605-199804000-00009     Document Type: Article

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