The first prenatal diagnosis of variant late infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (vLINCL Finnish ; CLN5) is reported. The disease belongs to the group of progressive encephalopathies in children with psycho-motor deterioration, visual failure and premature death. Neurons and several extraneural
Prenatal diagnosis of infantile neuronal ceroid-lipofuscinosis, INCL: Morphological aspects
✍ Scribed by J. Rapola; R. Salonen; P. Ämmälä; P. Santavuori
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 609 KB
- Volume
- 16
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0141-8955
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