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Acknowledgments Sanjeev Nath Special Acknowledgments Jeremy Whitney
Ajax George, MD Dr. Ajax E. George is the senior attending Neuroradiologist at NYU Langone Medical Center with a CAQ in Neuroradiology. He is a Professor of Radiology at the New York University School of Medicine in Manhattan, New York. After completing a combined college and medical school program at the National University Medical
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Comments and Conclusion (Cont’d) • The prevalence of AS is unknown but it may account for 2% to 6% of patients ailing from infantile spasms.¹ The world's literature suggests the incidence rates per live births for the United States and The Netherlands were 1 per 105,000 and 1 per 93,000, respectively. The frequency in
Comments and Conclusions • Aicardi Syndrome (AS) is characterized by infantile spasms, agenesis of the corpus collosum, and the “pathognomonic” chorioretinal lesions called “lacunae.”¹ AS patients are often mentally retarded, have skeletal malformations such as costovertebral anomalies and scoliosis, other brain abnormalities such as porencephalic cysts, and other ocular defects such as coloboma.¹ •
Zeiss FF450plus Autofluorescence Fundus Camera* Montage of Left Eye Comparison of Two Sisters (at the same magnifications)
Zeiss FF450plus Color Fundus Camera* Montage of Left Eye Comparison of Two Sisters (at the same magnifications)
Case 2: Midsagittal MRI Scan Image
