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Case Reports
. 1994 Jan;44(1):51-5.
doi: 10.1212/wnl.44.1.51.

Periventricular heterotopia and epilepsy

P R Huttenlocher  1 , S Taravath, S Mojtahedi
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Case Reports

Periventricular heterotopia and epilepsy

P R Huttenlocher et al. Neurology. 1994 Jan.

Abstract

We report a family with nodular subependymal masses of heterotopic gray matter occurring in six members in four generations. Only female members of the family are affected, and there is a high rate of spontaneous abortion, consistent with X-linked dominant inheritance, and lack of viability in affected males. Both in this family and in sporadic cases of subependymal heterotopias there is a high frequency of convulsive disorders, suggesting that epilepsy may be the major clinical manifestation of this developmental defect.

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