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CASE REPORT
Central pontine myelinolysis associated with Wilson disease in a 7-year-old child
  1. Rajesh Verma,
  2. Dheeraj Rai
  1. Department of Neurology, King George Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
  1. Correspondence to Professor Rajesh Verma, drrajeshverma32{at}yahoo.com

Summary

Wilson disease is a rare heredodegenerative inborn error of copper metabolism with varied neuropsychiatric, hepatic and other manifestations. Here we report a case of Wilson disease with neurological manifestations in a 7-year-old girl with concurrent asymptomatic liver involvement and characteristic radiological findings of signal intensity alterations in bilateral striata and thalami along with changes in central pons too like central pontine myelinolysis (CPM), which is of rare occurrence.

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