Leigh Syndrome: Report of a Rare Case with Late Onset Presentation
AL-Kindy College Medical Journal
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Leigh Syndrome: Report of a Rare Case with Late Onset Presentation
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Hassan, Qays A.
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Leigh's syndrome, or sub acute necrotizing encephalomyelopathy, is a rare inherited neurometabolic disease of infancy and early childhood with variable course and prognosis. Rarely, it occurs in juveniles and adults. The diagnosis is difficult and still remains to challenge the clinicians on the basis of history; hence the role of imaging is very essential. It is the neuroimaging, chiefly the Magnetic Resonance Imaging showing characteristic symmetrical necrotic lesions in the basal ganglia and/or brain stem that leads to the diagnosis. Late-onset varieties are rare and only few cases were reported all over the world. Here, I report a case of late onset (juvenile) Leigh syndrome presenting with an acute polyneuropathy. Neuroimaging confirmed it to be a case of Leigh syndrome.
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AL-Kindy College Medical Journal
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2018-10-31
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article |
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application/pdf
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http://jkmc.uobaghdad.edu.iq/index.php/MEDICAL/article/view/25
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مجلة كلية طب الكندي; مجلد 14 عدد 1 (2018): AL-KINDY COLLEGE MEDICAL JOURNAL; 87-89
AL-Kindy College Medical Journal; Vol 14 No 1 (2018): AL-KINDY COLLEGE MEDICAL JOURNAL; 87-89 2521-4365 1810-9543 |
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eng
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http://jkmc.uobaghdad.edu.iq/index.php/MEDICAL/article/view/25/21
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Copyright (c) 2018 AL-Kindy College Medical Journal
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