Late-onset Lafora's disease with typical intraneuronal inclusions

Neurology. 1993 Jun;43(6):1246-8. doi: 10.1212/wnl.43.6.1246.

Abstract

We describe a patient with progressive myoclonus epilepsy (late-onset Lafora's disease). Onset was in early adult life, and death was at age fifty-four. The initial symptoms were epileptic seizures and progressive dementia, with later occurrence of myoclonus. Lafora bodies were ubiquitous and in neuronal perikarya in many areas. Dust-like granular bodies predominated in the neuropil of cerebral cortex, substantia nigra, and striatum. Abnormal deposits were also found in the myocardium.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Brain / pathology*
  • Cerebral Cortex / pathology
  • Corpus Striatum / pathology
  • Epilepsies, Myoclonic / pathology*
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Inclusion Bodies / ultrastructure*
  • Middle Aged
  • Myocardium / pathology
  • Substantia Nigra / pathology