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Infantile and juvenile presentations of Alexander's disease: a report of two cases.
Deprez, Manuel; D'Hooghe, M.; Misson, Jean-Paul et al.
1999In Acta Neurologica Scandinavica, 99 (3), p. 158-65
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Keywords :
Adolescent; Age of Onset; Astrocytes/pathology; Brain/pathology; Brain Diseases/pathology; Child; Child, Preschool; Disease Progression; Female; Frontal Lobe/pathology; Humans; Infant; Male; Neurodegenerative Diseases/pathology
Abstract :
[en] We describe 2 new cases of Alexander's disease, the first to be reported in Belgium. The first patient, a 4-year-old girl, presented with progressive megalencephaly, mental retardation, spastic tetraparesis, ataxia and epilepsy: post-mortem examination showed widespread myelin loss with Rosenthal fibers (RFs) accumulation throughout the neuraxis. She was the third of heterozygotic twins, the 2 others having developed normally and being alive at age 5 years. The second patient developed at age 10 years and over a decade spastic paraparesis, palatal myoclonus, nystagmus, thoracic hyperkyphosis and thoraco-lumbar scoliosis with radiological findings of bilateral anterior leukoencephalopathy. Brain stereotactic biopsy at age 16 years demonstrated numerous RFs. With these 2 cases, we review the literature on the various clinico-pathological conditions reported as Alexander's disease. We discuss the nosology of this entity and the pathogeny of RFs formation and dysmyelination. Clues to the diagnosis of this encephalopathy in the living patient are briefly described.
Disciplines :
Neurology
Author, co-author :
Deprez, Manuel ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences biomédicales et précliniques > Anatomie et cytologie pathologiques
D'Hooghe, M.;  Algemeen Ziekenhuis Sint-Jan Brugge > Department of Paediatrics
Misson, Jean-Paul ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cliniques > Pédiatrie
De Leval, Laurence ;  Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège - CHU > Anatomie pathologique
Ceuterick, C.;  Born Bunge Foundation and University of Antwerp (UIA), Belgium > Laboratory of Neuropathology
Reznik, Michel ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Services généraux (Faculté de médecine) > Relations académiques et scientifiques (Médecine)
Martin, J. J.;  Born Bunge Foundation and University of Antwerp (UIA), Belgium > Laboratory of Neuropathology
Language :
English
Title :
Infantile and juvenile presentations of Alexander's disease: a report of two cases.
Publication date :
1999
Journal title :
Acta Neurologica Scandinavica
ISSN :
0001-6314
eISSN :
1600-0404
Publisher :
Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, United Kingdom
Volume :
99
Issue :
3
Pages :
158-65
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
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