Congenital infection-like syndrome with intracranial calcification

Brain and Development

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 530-533

  Mizuno, Yoko ^a   Takahashi, Kan ^a   Igarashi, Takashi ^a   Saito, Makiko ^a   Mizuguchi, Masashi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aicardi Gouti res syndrome; Cerebellar hypoplasia; Congenital infection like syndrome; Hoyeraal Hreidarsson syndrome; Immune abnormality; Intracranial calcification; Pancytopenia; Pseudo TORCH syndrome

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

AICARDI GOUTIERES SYNDROME; ARTICLE; ATHETOSIS; BRAIN CALCIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM HYPOPLASIA; CONGENITAL INFECTION; FIXATION DEVICE; GENE MUTATION; GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; MALE; NEURORADIOLOGY; PANCYTOPENIA; SPASTICITY;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM; CALCINOSIS; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DYSKERATOSIS CONGENITA; FATAL OUTCOME; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFECTION; MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION; MICROCEPHALY; NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATIONS; SYNDROME;

EID: 79955916488     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.braindev.2010.09.001     Document Type: Article

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