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Destructive encephalopathy in incontinentia pigmenti: a primary disorder?
A Shuper1, R N Bryan, H S Singer
1Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland 21205.
Pediatric Neurology
|March 1, 1990
Abstract:
A 3-day-old infant with incontinentia pigmenti presented with acute encephalopathy associated with neuroradiographic findings of hemorrhagic necrosis and brain edema. No specific infectious, inflammatory, vascular, or metabolic abnormality was identified. We speculate that there is a variably expressed mutant protein in incontinentia pigmenti that could cause either developmental brain malformations or a destructive process.