A child with Friedreich's ataxia and epilepsy.

作者: Meredith R. Golomb , Anna Illner , Celanie K. Christensen , Laurence E. Walsh

DOI: 10.1177/08830738050200031201

关键词: PediatricsAudiologyEarly onsetHeterotopia (medicine)EpilepsyGeneralized epilepsyTriplet repeatSubependymal zoneAtaxiaPsychologyMagnetic resonance imaging

摘要: Epilepsy in Friedreich's ataxia is rare. We describe a 9-year-old boy with who had onset of symptoms the second year life and developed generalized epilepsy at age 5 years. On cerebral magnetic resonance imaging, he has subependymal gray-matter heterotopia. suggest that his heterotopia might be related to diagnosis early length guanine-adenine-adenine (GAA) triplet repeat expansion.

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