title: Inflammatory myopathy and Walker-Warburg syndrome: etiologic implications.
abstract: Walker-Warburg syndrome is a well delineated clinical entity with characteristic brain and eye anomalies. Recent diagnostic surveys have revealed that muscular dystrophy is an obligatory feature of this syndrome. We report a patient with an inflammatory myopathy that preceded dystrophic changes. While reports of parental consanguinity and multiple affected sibships strongly suggest an autosomal recessive genetic basis for this syndrome, previous pathological analyses of the CNS have suggested an inflammatory process. Our case supports both the notion of an aberrant inflammatory process that is likely under genetic control or etiologic heterogeneity (phenocopies) underlying this syndrome.
authors.affiliation: Division of Pediatric Neurology, Montreal Children's Hospital, Quebec, Canada.
authors.forename: M I
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Shevell
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Rosenblatt
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Silver
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005124:Eye Abnormalities / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D009132:Muscles / Q000473:pathology; D009220:Myositis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology*; D013577:Syndrome; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed