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Werdnig-Hoffmann disease in a Nigerian infant
R A Pelleboer1, P D Maaswinkel-Mooy, H H Gelderen
1Department of Paediatrics, University Hospital, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Tropical and Geographical Medicine
|July 1, 1989
Abstract:
A Nigerian infant with the classical features of Werdnig-Hoffmann disease is described. According to the literature the incidence in black Africans is very low. Attention is drawn to the fact that neurological illnesses are often overlooked in negroid races; several reasons are given.