Van der Knaap's vacuolating leukoencephalopathy: two additional cases.

Eur J Paediatr Neurol

Department of Pediatrics, Viborg Hospital, Viborg, Denmark.

Published: March 2000

We present two new cases with infantile-onset megalencephaly and a characteristic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) pattern including severe white-matter abnormalities and subcortical cysts. In one of the patients MRI at the early age of 9 months showed pronounced white matter swelling. In another patient the swelling of white matter was less pronounced at 12 years of age.

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