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The nosologic panorama of progressive ataxia in Swedish children
Author(s) -
Ylitalo V.,
Hagberg B.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
acta neurologica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.967
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1600-0404
pISSN - 0001-6314
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0404.1988.tb03615.x
Subject(s) - ataxia , pediatrics , medicine , movement disorders , psychiatry , disease , pathology
‐ Described are 76 children with a picture of progressive encephalopathy and ataxia as the principal or joint principal leading signs. The series was hospital‐based in Gothenburg between 1973 and 1983, and not representative for epidemiologic analyses. The children were divided in groups by using a combined pathogenetic and clinical grouping system: lysosomal disorders (6 children), nonlysosomal lipid disorders (10), intermediary metabolic disorders (3), heredoataxias (22), phacomatoses including Louis‐Bar (5), dysimmune encephalopathies (6), other defined disorders (19) and undefined or incompletely defined conditions (5). Different groups are discussed and, according to this material, a diagnostic pathway is drawn up.