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A 15-year old girl with slowly progressive gait and speech disorders, and with impairment of mental ability, is decsribed. The disease appeared 18 months before the first hospitalization at the Department of Neurology and Physchiatry for Children and Young People. Neurological and other examinations confirmed extrapyramidal and cerebellar signs, conspisuous knee and ankle reflexes, marked splen...

A 4-year-old Afghan girl born to consanguineous parents presented with progressive neurological regression and hepatomegaly noticed after one year of age. The child had hypotonia, repeated unexplained falls and facial dyskinesia. Bone marrow examination revealed presence of storage cells suggestive of Gauchers or Niemann Pick. Confirmatory study by lysosomal enzyme from leucocytes was normal fo...