Lhermitte-Duclos disease
Common Name(s)
Lhermitte-Duclos disease
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Scientific Literature
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The terms "Lhermitte-Duclos disease" returned 24 free, full-text research articles on human participants.
First 3 results:
Journal: Cold Spring Harb Mol Case Stud. 2016 Nov;2(6):a001230.
Lhermitte-Duclos disease (LDD) is a rare cerebellar disorder believed to be pathognomonic for Cowden syndrome. Presently, the only known etiology is germline mutation. We report a 41-yr-old white female diagnosed with LDD and wild-type for . Exome sequencing revealed a germline heterozygous ...
Journal: Folia Neuropathol. 2016 ;54(2):190-6.
Lhermitte-Duclos disease (LDD), a disorder first described by French physicians Lhermitte and Duclos in 1920 [25], is a benign, slow growing dysplastic gangliocytoma of the cerebellum, characterized by replacement of the granule cell layer by abnormal granule and Purkinje like cells. ...
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The terms "Lhermitte-Duclos disease" returned 6 free, full-text review articles on human participants.
First 3 results:
Journal: Zh Vopr Neirokhir Im N N Burdenko. 2015 ;79(4):78-83.
Lhermitte--Duclos disease is a rare autosomal dominant inherited disorder characterized by the loss of the normal cerebellar cortex architecture and hamartoma formation in the cerebellar hemispheres. Most commonly, this disease manifests in the third and fourth decades of life. Approximately ...
Journal: Turk Neurosurg. 2015 ;25(5):783-7.
A 75-year-old man with Lhermitte-Duclos Disease (LDD) manifesting as progressive headache is presented. Magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated a right cerebellar mass lesion with the characteristic "tiger-striped appearance". A mild mass effect was evident at the medulla oblongata, ...
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Although previous reports purpored that the unique magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) features of Lhermitte-Duclos disease (LDD) obviates the need for biopsy, we have made a misdiagnosis of LDD which has an indistinguishable imaging appearance. We present a patient who suffered from ...
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