title: [Niemann-Pick disease in a boy 1 year and 10 months old].
abstract: A typical case of Niemann-Pick disease in a 22-month boy is presented. The disease was associated with a CNS lesion, as well as with the impairment of macrophagal-histiocytic system. The study of native material in the polarized light with subsequent confirmation by histochemical methods is considered as a method of choice for diagnosis of lingering diseases beginning in the postnatal period and with a suspicion of thesaurismosis, sphingomyelinosis, in particular.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D009542:Niemann-Pick Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D014781:Viscera / Q000473:pathology
vernacular_title: Bolezn' Nimana-Pika u mal'chika 1 goda 10 mes.