Aktar, Fesih Dicle University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Pediatric, Turkey , Karaman, Kamuran Yüzüncü Yıl University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Pediatric, Turkey , Özmen, Berfin Ö. Yüzüncü Yıl University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Pediatric, Turkey , Akıl, Muhammed Yüzüncü Yıl University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Pediatric, Turkey , Taşkın, Gökmen Yüzüncü Yıl University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Pediatric, Turkey , Çaksen, Hüseyin Yüzüncü Yıl University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Pediatric Neurology, Turkey

Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy in Sjögren-Larsson Syndrome

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Sjögren-Larsson syndrome (SLS) is a rare neurocutaneous disease showing an autosomal recessive transmission due to a lack of fatty acid aldehyde dehydrogenase. Spastic diplegia or triplegia, mental retardation and congenital lamellar ichthyosis are the major findings of the disease. The syndrome may be accompanied by various eye and teeth features, skeletal system anomaly, speaking defects, hypertelorism and epilepsy. A 9-month male patient has been hospitalized for convulsion and flaking on body. The patient history showed that flaking skin thickening and peeling was started at the birth, and he suffered a right-side focused seizure when he was three month-old and he was treated with phenobarbital and carbamazepine upon the epilepsy diagnosis. Wide ichthyosis, hypertelorism and bilateral simian line were observed in the physical examination. Bilateral punctuate lesions in cornea, pigment epithelial atrophy in the right eye and esotropia in the left eye have been determined during the eye examination. An epiteliform anomaly has been observed in the left hemisphere by electroencephalography. In brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), an increase in cerebral-cerebellar brain parenchyma and T1-T2 relaxation time and in the signal in corpus callosum (delayed myelination) have been determined. With the observation of the white matter in centrum semi oval using brain MRI spectroscopy, signs of a sphingolipid peak at 1.3 ppm have been observed. An SLS diagnosis has been proposed upon clinical and laboratory observations. We want to emphasize on the fact that in epilepsy cases with ichthyosis, SLS should be considered. Key words: Magnetic resonance spectroscopy

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Magnetic resonance spectroscopy , Sjögren , Larsson syndrome , epilepsy , ichthyosis , child

Dicle Medical Journal

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