Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis
ORPHA:216· ICD-10 E75.4
Definition
Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses (NCLs) are a group of inherited progressive degenerative brain diseases characterized clinically by a decline of mental and other capacities, epilepsy, and vision loss through retinal degeneration, and histopathologically by intracellular accumulation of an autofluorescent material, ceroid lipofuscin, in the neuronal cells in the brain and in the retina.
- Prevalence
- Unknown
- Inheritance
- Autosomal dominant, Autosomal recessive
- Age of onset
- All ages