Gene/Protein Disease Symptom Drug Enzyme Compound
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Query: UMLS:C0264733 (ventricular dilatation)
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This report describes 6 cases of Wilson's disease observed at the University Hospital Center in Conakry, Guinea. Presenting symptoms involved extrapyramidal syndrome in 4 cases, psychomotor epilepsy in 1, and confusional syndrome in 1 case. Diagnosis was based on neuropsychic manifestations, Kayser-Fleicher corneal ring, liver failure, and impaired copper metabolism. Brain CT-scan depicted normal features in 3 cases, symmetric hypodensity of the lenticular nucleus in one, discrete ventricular dilatation of in one a and cortico-subcoetical atrophy in one.
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PMID:[Wilson's disease: study of 6 neurologic forms observed at the University Hospital in Conakry]. 1522 59