Dashti Maseumeh, Chitsaz Ahmad
Department of Neurology, Shahid Sadooghi Hospital, Isfahan, Iran.
Adv Biomed Res. 2014 Sep 12;3:191. doi: 10.4103/2277-9175.140623. eCollection 2014.
Hallervorden-Spatz disease (HSD) is a rare disorder characterized by progressive extrapyramidal dysfunction and dementia. Hallervorden and Spatz first described the disease, in 1922 as a form of familial brain degeneration characterized by iron deposition in the brain. Here we present four HSD cases with different clinical pictures.
哈勒沃登-施帕茨病(HSD)是一种罕见的疾病,其特征为进行性锥体外系功能障碍和痴呆。1922年,哈勒沃登和施帕茨首次将该病描述为一种家族性脑变性疾病,其特征是大脑中有铁沉积。在此,我们展示了4例具有不同临床表现的哈勒沃登-施帕茨病病例。