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Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis

5C56.1

Link to WHO Definition

Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/1568332253

Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses (NCLs) are a group of inherited progressive degenerative brain diseases characterised 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.

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