MENKES SYNDROME

Authors

  • Patchrin PEKANAN Department of Radiology, Ramathibodi Hospital
  • Sirintara PONGPECH Department of Radiology, Ramathibodi Hospital
  • Siriporn THANAMEE Department of Radiology, Ramathibodi Hospital

Abstract

Menkes syndrome was reported in a 4-month-old boy. The patient had a seizure problem and recurrent urinary tract infection. His serum copper and cereluplasmin was very low. Imaging study showed bladder diverticuli by voiding cystography, brain atrophy by CT and MRI, bizarre elongation and kinking of the intracranial arteries by MRI and MRA.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Metrics

Metrics Loading ...

References

Taybi H, Lachman RS. Radiology of syndromes, metabolic disorders, and skeletal dysplasias. 3rd ed. Year book medical publishers, inc: Chicago, 1990:605-7.

Menkes JH, Alter M, Steigleder GK, Weakley DR, Sung JH. A sex linked recessive disorder with growth retardation, peculiar hair, and focal cerebral and cerebellar degeneration. Pediatrics 1962;29:764-79.

Berkow R, Fletcher AJ. The merck manual. 16th ed. Merck research laboratories: Rahway, 1992: 977-8.

Harcke HT, Capitanio MA, Grover WD, Valdes- Dapena MV. Bladder diverticula and Menkes' syndrome. Radiology 1977;124:459-61.

Adams PC, Strand RD, Bresnan MJ, Lucky AW. Hair Kinky syndrome: Serial study of radiological findings with emphasis on the similarity to the battered child syndrome. Radiology 1974;112:401-7.

Johnsen DE, Coleman L, Poe L. MR of progressive neurodegenerative change in treated Menkes' kinky hair disease. Neuroradiology

;33:181-82.

Blaser SI, Berns DH, Ross JS, Lanska MJ, Weissman BM. Serial MR studies in Menkes disease. J Comput Assist Tomogr 1989;13:113-5.

Faerber EN, Grover WD, Defiupp GJ, Capitanio MA, Liv TH. Swartz JD. Cerebral MR of Menkes kinky hair disease. AJNR 1989;10:190-2.

Jacobs DS, Smith AS, Finelli DA, Lanziert CF, Wiznitzer M. Menkes kinky hair disease: Characteristic MR angiographic findings. AJNR 1993;1160-3.

Kendall BE. Disorders of lysosomes, peroxisomes, and mitochondria. 1992;13:621-53.

Downloads

Published

2023-04-03

How to Cite

1.
PEKANAN P, PONGPECH S, THANAMEE S. MENKES SYNDROME. ASEAN J Radiol [Internet]. 2023 Apr. 3 [cited 2024 May 14];2(2):41-5. Available from: https://www.asean-journal-radiology.org/index.php/ajr/article/view/308

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 2 (1996): May-August

Section

Original Article

License

Copyright (c) 2023 The ASEAN Journal of Radiology

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Disclosure Forms and Copyright Agreements
All authors listed on the manuscript must complete both the electronic copyright agreement. (in the case of acceptance)

Most read articles by the same author(s)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 > >>