Primary cerebellar agenesis presenting as isolated cognitive impairment

Primary cerebellar agenesis is a rare entity. To the best of our knowledge, eleven living cases have been reported till date. Most of these were associated with some degree of motor impairment. We present a case of cerebellar agenesis in a child who presented with cognitive abnormalities leading to...

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Autores principales: Ashraf, Obaid, Jabeen, Shumyla, Khan, Azhar, Shaheen, Feroze
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4991160/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27606028
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1745.187646
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description Primary cerebellar agenesis is a rare entity. To the best of our knowledge, eleven living cases have been reported till date. Most of these were associated with some degree of motor impairment. We present a case of cerebellar agenesis in a child who presented with cognitive abnormalities leading to poor performance at school. No motor impairment was seen. Among the eleven cases reported earlier, only one case showed lack of motor impairment.
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spelling pubmed-49911602016-09-07 Primary cerebellar agenesis presenting as isolated cognitive impairment Ashraf, Obaid Jabeen, Shumyla Khan, Azhar Shaheen, Feroze J Pediatr Neurosci Case Report Primary cerebellar agenesis is a rare entity. To the best of our knowledge, eleven living cases have been reported till date. Most of these were associated with some degree of motor impairment. We present a case of cerebellar agenesis in a child who presented with cognitive abnormalities leading to poor performance at school. No motor impairment was seen. Among the eleven cases reported earlier, only one case showed lack of motor impairment. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4991160/ /pubmed/27606028 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1745.187646 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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