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Niemann-Pick Disease (Crocker's Group A)Late Onset and Pigmentary Degeneration Resembling Hallervorden-Spatz Syndrome
Jean-Jacques Martin, MD;
Michel Philippart, MD;
Jan Van Hauwaert, MD;
John W. Callahan, PhD;
Roger Deberdt, MD
Arch Neurol. 1972;27(1):45-51.
Abstract
Postmortem findings on a 12-year-old Flemish girl unexpectedly revealed a neurolipidosis with the biochemical features of Niemann-Pick disease (Crocker's group A). Three other siblings were similarly affected clinically. The late clinical onset was suggestive of Crocker's group C, but the huge amount of sphingomyelin and lysobisphosphatidic acid stored in the organs and in the brain gray matter and the pronounced deficiency of sphingomyelinase were pathognomonic of group A. Pathological findings were unusual too, since in addition to the lipid storage in most neurons and in the reticuloendothelial system, large amounts of lipopigment were found in glial cells from the pallidum, pars reticulata of the substantia nigra and dentate nuclei, thalamus, and brain cortex.
Author Affiliations
Antwerp, Belgium; Los Angeles; Antwerp; Los Angeles; Antwerp
From the Department of Neuropathology, Born-Bunge Foundation, Berchem-Antwerp, Belgium (Drs. Martin, Van Hauwaert, and Deberdt), and the Mental Retardation Center, the Neuropsychiatric Institute, Los Angeles (Drs. Philippart and Callahan). Dr. Callahan is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Medical Research Council of Canada.
Footnotes
Accepted for publication March 8, 1972.
Reprint requests to Born-Bunge Foundation, F Williotstraat, 59, 2600 Berchem, Antwerp, Belgium (Dr. Martin).
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