title: Congenital muscular dystrophy with cerebral and ocular malformations (cerebro-oculo-muscular syndrome).
abstract: Two children with the features of the "Muscle, Eye and Brain (MEB) Disease" (SANTAVUORI 1977), i.e. congenital muscular dystrophy (CMD), cerebral malformations and ocular abnormalities are reported and correlations with other inherited autosomal recessive syndromes of CMD, Fukuyama type of CMD and the Walker-Warburg syndrome discussed. The association of CMD and cerebral lesions indicate an unfavourable clinical prognosis.
mesh_terms: D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple / Q000150:complications*; D001921:Brain / Q000002:abnormalities*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005124:Eye Abnormalities; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D009136:Muscular Dystrophies / Q000151:congenital*; D013577:Syndrome; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed