Severe, non X-linked congenital microcephaly with absence of the pyramidal tracts in two siblings

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 203-211

  Ten Donkelaar, H J ^a   Wesseling, P ^a   Semmekrot, B A ^a   Liem, K D ^a   Tuerlings, J ^a   Cruysberg, J R M ^a   De Wit, P E J ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cataract; Inferior olive dysplasia; Microcephaly; Pyramid absence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONGENITAL CATARACT; CONGENITAL ICHTHYOSIFORM ERYTHRODERMA; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPLASIA; EYE MALFORMATION; FACE MALFORMATION; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPLASIA; INFERIOR OLIVE; INSULA; MALE; MICROCEPHALY; MICROPHTHALMIA; MUSCLE CONTRACTURE; NEWBORN; PEDUNCULAR ANSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SIBLING;

BRAIN; CATARACT; CONTRACTURE; FACIES; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GENES, RECESSIVE; HAND; HUMANS; ICHTHYOSIS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MICROCEPHALY; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; SYNDROME; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0032818429     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004010051070     Document Type: Article

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