Extensive brain calcification in two children with bilateral Coats' disease

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作者
Goutières, F
Dollfus, H
Becquet, F
Dufier, JL
机构
[1] Hop Necker Enfants Malad, Pediat Neurol Unit, F-75743 Paris 15, France
[2] Hop Necker Enfants Malad, Dept Ophthalmol, F-75743 Paris, France
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Coats' retinopathy; basal ganglia calcifications; cerebellar ataxia;
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10.1055/s-2007-973451
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R74 [神经病学与精神病学];
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We report two children with bilateral Coats' disease associated with cerebral calcifications in the basal ganglia and deep white matter, asymptomatic at the time of their discovery. Cerebellar ataxia developed secondarily in one of them. Both children were born small for date and had febrile convulsive seizures. Three similar patients have been previously reported, two of them in the same sibship: the third reported patient died of aplastic anemia. Bilateral Coots' disease in children should prompt systematic CT scan in search of cerebral calcifications. If present, neurological and genetic prognosis should be cautious.
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