Rett syndrome

Rett syndrome is a rare, progressive, neurodevelopmental disorder that has been reported only in the girl child. We describe the case of a 6.9-year-old girl with Rett syndrome. She had normal development till the age of 2 years. However, over the next 4–5 months, she lost her acquired, purposeful ha...

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Autores principales: Sitholey, Prabhat, Agarwal, Vivek, Srivastava, Rohit
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2005
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2918296/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20711295
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.55959
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Agarwal, Vivek
Srivastava, Rohit
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description Rett syndrome is a rare, progressive, neurodevelopmental disorder that has been reported only in the girl child. We describe the case of a 6.9-year-old girl with Rett syndrome. She had normal development till the age of 2 years. However, over the next 4–5 months, she lost her acquired, purposeful hand skills; expressive and receptive language; and reciprocal social interaction; and gradually developed a broad-based gait and typical midline stereotyped hand movements (mouthing, rubbing).
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spelling pubmed-29182962010-08-13 Rett syndrome Sitholey, Prabhat Agarwal, Vivek Srivastava, Rohit Indian J Psychiatry Case Report Rett syndrome is a rare, progressive, neurodevelopmental disorder that has been reported only in the girl child. We describe the case of a 6.9-year-old girl with Rett syndrome. She had normal development till the age of 2 years. However, over the next 4–5 months, she lost her acquired, purposeful hand skills; expressive and receptive language; and reciprocal social interaction; and gradually developed a broad-based gait and typical midline stereotyped hand movements (mouthing, rubbing). Medknow Publications 2005 /pmc/articles/PMC2918296/ /pubmed/20711295 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.55959 Text en © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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