A kindred with Griscelli disease: spectrum of neurological involvement

Eur J Pediatr. 1993 May;152(5):402-5. doi: 10.1007/BF01955897.

Abstract

We report four members of a highly consanguineous family with silver-grey pigmentation of hair, two of whom had skin histology compatible with Griscelli disease. Unlike previously reported patients, they did not suffer from recurrent infections. In addition, there was a spectrum of neurological involvement varying from mild cognitive delay with a convulsive disorder in one patient, to a fatal degenerative course in three others. One patient developed a prolonged febrile illness with histological evidence of florid lymphoid hyperplasia.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Child, Preschool
  • Hair Diseases / complications*
  • Hair Diseases / genetics
  • Hair Diseases / pathology
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Intellectual Disability / etiology*
  • Male
  • Pedigree
  • Pigmentation Disorders / complications*
  • Pigmentation Disorders / genetics
  • Pigmentation Disorders / pathology
  • Seizures / etiology*