Niemann-Pick disease-type C: a case report
1Calicut Medical College, Calicut, Kerala.
Indian Journal of Pathology & Microbiology
|May 25, 2002
Abstract:
We report a case, with foamy histocytes in the bone marrow and eye movement abnormalities which is characteristic for Niemann Pick disease Type-C.
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