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Joubert’s syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive disease, which is under-diagnosed, associated with other brain and body malformations, and carries a poor prognosis. We describe a 6-year-old boy who presented with non-progressive instability of stance and gait, mental retardation and a new onset of generalised seizures with the typical brain imaging findings of Joubert’s syndrome. We believe this is the first diagnosed case of Joubert’s syndrome in Iraq.
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Competing interests: Dr Osama SM Amin owns www.Neurology4MRCP.com. This website is free in providing teaching materials for the MRCP examinations. From July 2009 most of the publications will no longer be free. Dr Osama SM Amin receives royalties for the books Mock Papers for MRCPI part I, Self-assessment for MRCP (UK) part 1 and Self-Assessment for MRCP part II.
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