A Rare Cause of Seizure; Lipoid Proteinozis (Urbach-Wiethe disease): A Case Report
Author(s) -
Nursel Yurttutan
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of contemporary medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2146-6009
pISSN - 2146-4189
DOI - 10.16899/ctd.45513
Subject(s) - medicine , dermatology , epilepsy , rare disease , disease , pathology , psychiatry
Lipoid Proteinozis (LP) known as Urbach-Wiethe disease is a rare autosomal recessive inherited genodermatozis. Patients usually present with hoarseness and skin-mucosa abnormalities. Lipoid Proteinozis involves the central nervous system (CNS) rarely. The essential imaging finding in LP is appearance of atypical intracranial calcifications, mostly occurring in the medial temporal lobes. Herein we report a rare case presenting with seizure accompanied computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings and also with pathological confirmation.
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