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PEDIATRIC NEUROLOGY
Volume 37, Issue 5, Pages 363-365Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2007.06.022
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Neurologic involvement in nevoid basal-cell carcinoma syndrome includes intracranial calcification, congenital hydrocephalus, intracranial neoplasms, and mental retardation. A few cases of epilepsy with nevoid basal-cell carcinorna syndrome were reported. We report on a patient with nevoid basal-cell carcinoma syndrome and West syndrome. The patient had a heterozygous mutation (insertion of TGGC) in the PTCH gene. This mutation causes a shift of the reading frame, and creates a stop codon predicting the truncation of the PTCH protein. This mutation was not found in previously described patients with nevoid basal-cell carcinoma syndrome. (C) 2007 by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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