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The Importance of Retinal Electrophysiology in Ceroid Lipofuscinosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

B. Stanescu ,
M. Spiritus  and
J. Michiels
B. Stanescu*
Affiliation:
Clinique Ophtalmologique de l'Université de Louvain, Belgique
M. Spiritus
Affiliation:
Clinique Ophtalmologique de l'Université de Louvain, Belgique
J. Michiels
Affiliation:
Clinique Ophtalmologique de l'Université de Louvain, Belgique
*
Service d'Ophtalmologie, Academisch Ziekenhuis St. Rafael, Capucijnevoer 7, Louvain, Belgium

Abstract

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The two types of amaurotic idiocy, gangliosidosis and ceroid lipofuscinosis, are characterized by biochemical, ultrastructural, and electrophysiological differences. They are in fact two different clinical entities, both resulting from a congenital metabolic trouble.

Six clinical cases of ceroid lipofuscinosis are presented and the diagnostic importance of the ERG is stressed.

Type
8. Free Contributions: Fourth Group
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 23 , supplement S1 , January 1974 , pp. 367 - 370
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1974

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