Diseases

Periventricular Nodular Heterotopia

A disorder resulting from a defect in the pattern of neuronal migration in which ectopic collections of neurons lie along the lateral ventricles of the brain or just beneath, contiguously or in isolated patches.

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Abstract

A disorder resulting from a defect in the pattern of neuronal migration in which ectopic collections of neurons lie along the lateral ventricles of the brain or just beneath, contiguously or in isolated patches.

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  • Periventricular Heterotopia
  • Heterotopia, Periventricular
  • Heterotopia, Periventricular Nodular
  • Nodular Heterotopia, Periventricular
  • Periventricular Heterotopias
  • Periventricular Nodular Heterotopias
  • Bilateral Periventricular Nodular Heterotopia
  • Familial Nodular Heterotopia
  • Heterotopia, Familial Nodular
  • Heterotopia, Periventricular, X-Linked Dominant
  • Nodular Heterotopia, Bilateral Periventricular
  • Periventricular Heterotopia, X-Linked
  • Periventricular Nodular Heterotopia 1
  • Familial Nodular Heterotopias
  • Heterotopia, X-Linked Periventricular
  • Nodular Heterotopia, Familial
  • Periventricular Heterotopia, X Linked
  • X-Linked Periventricular Heterotopia
  • X-Linked Periventricular Heterotopias

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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.

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2008

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Periventricular Nodular Heterotopia. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D054091. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D054091
  2. Periventricular Nodular Heterotopia. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18553263