Elsevier

Pediatric Neurology

Volume 16, Issue 2, February 1997, Pages 145-148
Pediatric Neurology

Case report
Occipital-parietal encephalopathy: A new name for an old syndrome

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Abstract

A boy presented with hypertension, seizures, lethargy, headache, and occipital blindness. He improved with antihypertensive therapy. Other reported children with a similar distinctive clinical condition are compared with adults with a syndrome termed reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy. Because both gray and white matter are involved, we suggest that the name be changed to occipital-parietal encephalopathy syndrome.

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