Symmetric lesions of the subthalamic nuclei in mitochondrial encephalopathies: an almost distinctive Mark of Leigh disease with COX deficiency

MeSH terms

• Brain / pathology
• Brain Diseases, Metabolic / diagnosis
• Child
• Cytochrome-c Oxidase Deficiency*
• Diagnosis, Differential
• Dominance, Cerebral / physiology
• Humans
• Leigh Disease / diagnosis*
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging*
• Mitochondrial Encephalomyopathies / diagnosis*
• Thalamic Nuclei / pathology*