Infantile Refsum Disease

Authors

  • J Gordon Millichap Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15844/pedneurbriefs-2-3-11

Keywords:

Infantile Refsum Disease, Self-Mutilating Behavior, Chronic Polyneuropathy

Abstract

Two patients with infantile Refsum (phytanic acid storage) disease were treated at 9 mos and 5½ years of age with a low phytanic acid diet and the effects studied over a 2-yr period or longer in the Depts of Chemical Pathology, Neurology and Histopathology, Adelaide Children's Hospital, and the Dept of Neurology, Prince of Wales Children's Hospital, New South Wales, Australia

Published

1988-03-01

Issue

Section

Degenerative Diseases