A case of Baraitser-Winter syndrome with unusual brain MRI findings: Pachygyria, subcortical-band heterotopia, and periventricular heterotopia

Brain and Development

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 502-505

  Shiihara, Takashi ^a,b   Maruyama, Ken ichi ^a   Yamada, Yoshiyuki ^a   Nishimura, Akira ^c   Matsumoto, Naomichi ^c   Kato, Mitsuhiro ^d   Sakazume, Satoru ^a  

^a Gumna Children S Medical Center   (Japan)

^b DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Baraitser Winter syndrome; Pachygyria; Periventricular heterotopia; Subcortical band heterotopia

Indexed keywords

PHENOBARBITAL;

ARTICLE; BARAITSER WINTER SYNDROME; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CONVULSION; CYSTIC LYMPHANGIOMA; EAR MALFORMATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECZEMA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EOSINOPHILIA; EPICANTHUS; GENOME ANALYSIS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; HYPERTELORISM; IRIS COLOBOMA; JAPANESE; MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION MALFORMATION SYNDROME; MICROPHTHALMIA; MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PACHYGYRIA; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PERIVENTRICULAR HETEROTOPIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PTOSIS; SUBCORTICAL HETEROTOPIA; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; JAPAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION; PHENOTYPE; SYNDROME;

EID: 77952547349     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.braindev.2009.04.015     Document Type: Article

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