Self-injurious Behavior in a Young Child with Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome

Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (LNS) is a rare inherited disorder caused by a deficiency of the enzyme hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyl transferase-1. Few reports on behavioral aspects especially self-injurious behavior in LNS patients are available. We report a case of LNS in an 8-year-old male child, who...

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Autores principales: Mohapatra, Satyakam, Sahoo, Alok Jyoti
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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/PMC5052966/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27833236
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7176.191389
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description Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (LNS) is a rare inherited disorder caused by a deficiency of the enzyme hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyl transferase-1. Few reports on behavioral aspects especially self-injurious behavior in LNS patients are available. We report a case of LNS in an 8-year-old male child, who presented with characteristic self-injurious behavior.
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spelling pubmed-50529662016-11-10 Self-injurious Behavior in a Young Child with Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome Mohapatra, Satyakam Sahoo, Alok Jyoti Indian J Psychol Med Case Report Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (LNS) is a rare inherited disorder caused by a deficiency of the enzyme hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyl transferase-1. Few reports on behavioral aspects especially self-injurious behavior in LNS patients are available. We report a case of LNS in an 8-year-old male child, who presented with characteristic self-injurious behavior. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC5052966/ /pubmed/27833236 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7176.191389 Text en Copyright: © 2016 Indian Psychiatric Society 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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