PMID- 1659791 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 19920102 LR - 20190907 IS - 0387-7604 (Print) IS - 0387-7604 (Linking) VI - 13 IP - 4 DP - 1991 Jul TI - Infantile neuroaxonal dystrophy: diagnosis by skin biopsy. PG - 256-9 AB - A child who shows progressive motor and mental deterioration after the first year of life, who has pyramidal signs, marked muscle hypotonia, but no seizures, suggests to have infantile neuroaxonal dystrophy (INAD). Beyond the age of two years, the EEG also entails characteristic findings. Diagnosis may be obtained by an ultrastructural examination of biopsied skin. The respective clinical and morphological findings are recorded and illustrated from four patients in this report. FAU - Ozmen, M AU - Ozmen M AD - Department of Pediatrics, Istanbul University Faculty of Medicine, Turkey. FAU - Caliskan, M AU - Caliskan M FAU - Goebel, H H AU - Goebel HH FAU - Apak, S AU - Apak S LA - eng PT - Case Reports PT - Journal Article PL - Netherlands TA - Brain Dev JT - Brain & development JID - 7909235 SB - IM MH - Biopsy MH - Child, Preschool MH - Female MH - Humans MH - Infant MH - Male MH - Neuromuscular Diseases/*pathology MH - Peripheral Nervous System Diseases/*pathology MH - Skin/*innervation/pathology EDAT- 1991/07/01 00:00 MHDA- 1991/07/01 00:01 CRDT- 1991/07/01 00:00 PHST- 1991/07/01 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 1991/07/01 00:01 [medline] PHST- 1991/07/01 00:00 [entrez] AID - S0387-7604(12)80059-3 [pii] AID - 10.1016/s0387-7604(12)80059-3 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Brain Dev. 1991 Jul;13(4):256-9. doi: 10.1016/s0387-7604(12)80059-3.