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... > Nervous System Diseases > Central Nervous System Diseases > Brain Diseases > Epilepsy > Epilepsy, Generalized > Epilepsies, Myoclonic > Myoclonic Epilepsies, Progressive
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Myoclonic Epilepsies, Progressive  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Epilepsies, Progressive Myoclonus
  • Epilepsy, Progressive Myoclonus
  • Myoclonic Epilepsy, Progressive
  • Myoclonus Epilepsies, Progressive
  • Progressive Myoclonic Epilepsy
  • Progressive Myoclonus Epilepsies
  • Progressive Myoclonus Epilepsy

Scope note

  • A heterogeneous group of primarily familial EPILEPSY disorders characterized by myoclonic seizures, tonic-clonic seizures, ataxia, progressive intellectual deterioration, and neuronal degeneration. These include LAFORA DISEASE; MERRF SYNDROME; NEURONAL CEROID-LIPOFUSCINOSIS; sialidosis (see MUCOLIPIDOSES), and UNVERRICHT-LUNDBORG SYNDROME.

History note

  • 2000; use Epilepsy, Myoclonic 1977-1999

In other languages

  • etenevät myoklonusepilepsiat

    Finnish

  • epilepsia myoclonica progressiva
  • etenevä myoklonusepilepsia
  • PME
  • progredioiva myoklonusepilepsia
  • progredioivat myoklonusepilepsiat
  • progressiivinen myoklonusepilepsia
  • progressiiviset myoklonusepilepsiat
  • Progressiv myoklonisk epilepsi

    Swedish

  • Biotin-responsiv encefalopati
  • Dentatorubral pallidoluysisk atrofi
  • Haw Rivers syndrom
  • May-Whites syndrom
  • Naito – Oyanagis sjukdom

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D020191

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