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Case history A 6-year-old boy was taken to the doctor to review the skeletal X-rays, requested on the previous consultation. The mother reported that pregnancy and birth were uneventful. The…
2 Department of Paediatrics, University of Padova, Padova, Italy Introduction Of the 50 or more described lysosomal storage diseases (LSDs) the majority are neuronopathic and associated with profound neurodegeneration. The…
2 Department of Biochemistry, Children’s Hospital, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany 16.2 Multiple Sulfatase Deficiency Graciana Diez-Roux and Andrea Ballabio Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine , Naples ,…
2 Department of Neurology, Thomas Jefferson University, and Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA, USA3 Department of Pediatric Neurology and Developmental Medicine, University Children’s Hospital, Tübingen, Germany MLD and GLD Metachromatic…
