Rett syndrome is a newly characterized developmental disorder that affect girls exclusively. These girls are born clinically normal, but their psychomotor development stagnates and deteriorates between the age of 6 months and 2 1/2 years.
The full syndrome comprises; aquired microcephaly, severe dementia, autism, loss of purposeful use of the hands, characteristic hand-wringing stereotypies, jerky ataxia of the trunk, epilepsy with various types of fits, and in later years spastic
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trophic changes of the lower limbs. There is no known cytogenetic, biochemical or molecular marker for the disorder; the diagnosis is based on clinical criteria.
We report a case of Rett syndrome with a brief review of related literatues.
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