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Unusually prolonged survival and childhood-onset epilepsy in a case of alobar holoprosencephaly

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Alobar holoprosencephaly is one of the most severe congenital malformations of the central nervous system. Most affected infants are stillborn or have a very short life-span. The survivors can present with neonatal seizures and/or infantile spasms. We report on an unusually long-lived patient with alobar holoprosencephaly and minor facial dysmorphism, who developed generalized epilepsy during childhood.

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  1. Child Neuropsychiatry Department, G. Gaslini Institute, University of Genoa, Largo G. Gaslini, 5 I-16147 Genova, Italy e-mail: veneselli@usa.net Tel.: +39-10-56 36 535 Fax: +39-10-38 13 03, , , , , , IT

    E. Veneselli, Roberta Biancheri & Maria Viviana Perrone

  2. II Paediatrics Department, G. Gaslini Institute, Genova, Italy, , , , , , IT

    Maja Di Rocco

  3. Neuroradiology Department, G. Gaslini Institute, Genova, Italy, , , , , , IT

    Maria Paola Fondelli & Paolo Tortori Donati

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Received: 28 March 1998 Revised: 17 August 1998

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Veneselli, E., Biancheri, R., Di Rocco, M. et al. Unusually prolonged survival and childhood-onset epilepsy in a case of alobar holoprosencephaly. Child's Nerv Syst 15, 274–277 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003810050392

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