Lafora body disease is a common and severe form of progressive myoclonic epilepsy. It is an autosomal recessive disorder with a gene locus recently mapped to chromosome 6q23-27. The disease presents between the age of 10 and 18 years with generalised seizures followed by myoclunus.
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April 2005
Ectopic localization of oxyuriasis is rare and frequently does not cause clinical problems. It has been reported in the vagina, endometrium, fallopian tube, peritoneal surface and ovary; In these localizations it often causes pseudo-tumoral granulomas. The aim of our study was to describe etiopathogenic and clinical criteria of this rare pathology.
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