Unexplained Bilateral Occipital Calcification and Reduced Vision

E. Del Giudice; L. Pelosi; A. Romano; P. De Bellis; M. R. Licenziati; I. Pastore; G. Andria; E. Boltshauser; L. Comenale Pinto

doi:10.1055/s-2008-1052371

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Neuropediatrics 1984; 15(4): 218-219
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1052371

Unexplained Bilateral Occipital Calcification and Reduced Vision

E. Del Giudice¹ , L. Pelosi¹ , A. Romano¹ , P. De Bellis¹ , M. R. Licenziati¹ , I. Pastore¹ , G. Andria¹ , E. Boltshauser² , L. Comenale Pinto²

¹Departments of Pediatrics and Neurophysiology, 2nd Faculty of Medicine, University of Naples, I-80131 Naples, Italy
²Department of Pediatrics, University of Zürich, CH-8032 Zürich, Switzerland

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15 May 2008 (online)

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Abstract

An eight year-old girl, investigated because of convulsions, was found to have isolated bilateral presumably cortical and subcortical calcification, reduced visual acuity and prolonged visual evoked response latencies. There were no clinical manifestations of a phakomatosis.

Key words

Cerebral calcification - Phakomatosis - Sturge-Weber syndrome - Epilepsy