NEUROVISCERAL STORAGE DISEASE

Autor: B S Danes, H Grossman
Rok vydání: 1968
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Zdroj: American Journal of Roentgenology. 103:149-153
ISSN: 1546-3141
0361-803X
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.103.1.149
Popis: Neurovisceral storage disease is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait.The patients have clinical and roentgenographic features resembling Hurler's disease. There is severe progressive cerebral degeneration with death occurring in the first two years of life. Increased accumulation of ganglioside in the brain has been previously demonstrated.Two patients are reported who show, in addition, the increased synthesis and storage of mucopolysaccharide in skin fibroblast cultures.
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