Computerized tomography in primary hyperammonemia.
Urea cycle enzymopathies are rare in the literature. They are accompanied by neurological disorders somehow related to the increase in blood ammonia. Reviewing the possible physiopathological course we present a case in which during an eight month period severe cerebral atrophy developed, more intense in the occipital region but totally sparing the posterior cranial fossa structures.
Olier
J
J
Department of Neuroradiology, Hospital de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.
Gallego
J
J
Digon
E
E
D000641:Ammonia / Q000097:blood*; D001284:Atrophy; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000201:enzymology / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000097:blood / Q000201:enzymology; D020163:Ornithine Carbamoyltransferase Deficiency Disease; D013997:Time Factors; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
D000641:Ammonia