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  • Title: An autopsy case of classical Pelizaeus-Merzbacher's disease.
    Author: Konishi Y, Kamoshita S.
    Journal: Acta Neuropathol; 1975; 31(3):267-70. PubMed ID: 1138535.
    Abstract:
    A girl aged 8 years and 10 months at death had shown signs of a slowly progressive neurological disease with onset in early infancy. The main clinical features were nystagmus, spastic paraplegia, amd mental deterioration. Pathological examination of the brain showed severe demyelination with perivascular preservation of mylein islands, presenting a tigroid pattern. The patient is the second case of classical Pelizaeus-Merzbacher's disease in Japan proven by autopsy.
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