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This report presents a case of infantile multiple system atrophy with probably autosomal recessive inheritance. The female patient developed generalized muscular hypotonia, myoclonias and tonic-clonic seizures at the age of 8 months, followed by gradual development of choreoathetotic hyperkinesia and increasing psychomotor retardation. Metabolic disease was ruled out and the child died of aspiration pneumonia at the age of 5 years. General autopsy was unremarkable, but neuropathological examination showed degeneration of cerebellum, inferior olives, medial thalamus, Clarke's nucleus, anterior horn cells, corticospinal, spinocerebellar tracts, and posterior columns. Immunohistochemically many neurons contained intranuclear and intracytoplasmic ubiquitin-positive inclusions, which did not contain neurofilament or tau epitopes and ultrastructurally consisted of granulofilamentous material. We tentatively classify this case as a form of infantile multiple system atrophy linked to neuronal intranuclear hyaline inclusion disease.
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Bergmann, M., Kuchelmeister, K., Gullotta, F. et al. Infantile multiple system atrophy with cytoplasmic and intranuclear glioneuronal inclusions. Acta Neuropathol 87, 642–647 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00293326
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