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Progressive white-matter disease with primary cerebellar involvement: a separate entity?

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Although its metabolic basis has not yet been clarified, we report a progressive white-matter disease in a Turkish girl, starting in the cerebellum and spreading to supratentorial white matter. The onset was at the age of 2.5 years with diabetes insipidus, followed by ataxia and pyramidal signs resulting in loss of walking. Aqueduct stenosis was first recognised at the age of 8 years. To our knowledge, this MRI and clinical pattern does not correspond to a recognised, well-defined white-matter disease and may indicate a separate entity.

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  1. Division of Child Neurology, Department of Neurology, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey

    C. Yalcinkaya

  2. Division of Endocrinology, Department of Paediatrics, Goeztepe Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

    I. Arslanoglu

  3. Division of Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey

    C. Islak

  4. Division of Metabolic Disease, Department of Paediatrics, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey

    A. Aydin

  5. Division of Paediatric Neurology, University Children's Hospital, Steinwiesstrasse 75, 8032 Zürich, Switzerland

    E. Boltshauser

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Yalcinkaya, C., Arslanoglu, I., Islak, C. et al. Progressive white-matter disease with primary cerebellar involvement: a separate entity?. Neuroradiology 44, 775–779 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00234-002-0842-7

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