An Unusual Triad in Pediatric Neurology: A Case Report on Cerebral Palsy, Epilepsy, and Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

We present a case of an unusual triad in pediatric neurology: a currently 12-year-old boy with cerebral palsy and epilepsy who was later also diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. We describe the clinical path that resulted in this exceptional diagnosis. This case report illustrates how differ...

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Autores principales: Hendriksen, Ruben G. F., Aalbers, Marlien W., Hendriksen, Jos G. M., de Die-Smulders, Christine E. M., Hoogland, Govert, Vles, Johan S. H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2016
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Brief Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5417281/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28503609
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2329048X16642948
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author Hendriksen, Ruben G. F.
Aalbers, Marlien W.
Hendriksen, Jos G. M.
de Die-Smulders, Christine E. M.
Hoogland, Govert
Vles, Johan S. H.
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Aalbers, Marlien W.
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de Die-Smulders, Christine E. M.
Hoogland, Govert
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description We present a case of an unusual triad in pediatric neurology: a currently 12-year-old boy with cerebral palsy and epilepsy who was later also diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. We describe the clinical path that resulted in this exceptional diagnosis. This case report illustrates how different neurological disorders may overshadow each other. In addition, it demonstrates that every child with cerebral palsy and either an atypical clinical course or with inexplicable laboratory values—as well as every infant boy born to a theoretical Duchenne muscular dystrophy carrier—should be subjected to additional investigations.
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spelling pubmed-54172812017-05-11 An Unusual Triad in Pediatric Neurology: A Case Report on Cerebral Palsy, Epilepsy, and Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Hendriksen, Ruben G. F. Aalbers, Marlien W. Hendriksen, Jos G. M. de Die-Smulders, Christine E. M. Hoogland, Govert Vles, Johan S. H. Child Neurol Open Brief Communication We present a case of an unusual triad in pediatric neurology: a currently 12-year-old boy with cerebral palsy and epilepsy who was later also diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. We describe the clinical path that resulted in this exceptional diagnosis. This case report illustrates how different neurological disorders may overshadow each other. In addition, it demonstrates that every child with cerebral palsy and either an atypical clinical course or with inexplicable laboratory values—as well as every infant boy born to a theoretical Duchenne muscular dystrophy carrier—should be subjected to additional investigations. SAGE Publications 2016-04-19 /pmc/articles/PMC5417281/ /pubmed/28503609 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2329048X16642948 Text en © The Author(s) 2016 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
spellingShingle Brief Communication
Hendriksen, Ruben G. F.
Aalbers, Marlien W.
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Hoogland, Govert
Vles, Johan S. H.
An Unusual Triad in Pediatric Neurology: A Case Report on Cerebral Palsy, Epilepsy, and Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
title An Unusual Triad in Pediatric Neurology: A Case Report on Cerebral Palsy, Epilepsy, and Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
title_full An Unusual Triad in Pediatric Neurology: A Case Report on Cerebral Palsy, Epilepsy, and Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
title_fullStr An Unusual Triad in Pediatric Neurology: A Case Report on Cerebral Palsy, Epilepsy, and Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
title_full_unstemmed An Unusual Triad in Pediatric Neurology: A Case Report on Cerebral Palsy, Epilepsy, and Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
title_short An Unusual Triad in Pediatric Neurology: A Case Report on Cerebral Palsy, Epilepsy, and Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
title_sort unusual triad in pediatric neurology: a case report on cerebral palsy, epilepsy, and duchenne muscular dystrophy
topic Brief Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5417281/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28503609
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2329048X16642948
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