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Rud's syndrome
Also known as:
Sjögren-Larsson syndrome
Associated persons:
Tage Konrad Leopold Larsson
Einar Rud
Karl Gustaf Torsten Sjögren
Description:
A syndrome characterised by ichtyosis of the skin, usually present from early infancy, psychomotor retardation, epileptic seizures, short stature, retinitis pigmentosa, polyneuropathy, hypogonadism and severe mental retardation. Both sexes affected, male-to-female ratio 2: 1. Inheritance is autosomal recessive or X-linked.
Some writers consider this and the Sjögren-Larsson syndrome the same entity.
Sjögren-Larsson syndrome is entered as a separate entity under Karl Gustaf Torsten Sjögren, Swedish psychiatrist and geneticist, born 1896.
Bibliography:
- E. Rud:
Et Tilfælde af Infantilismus med Tetani, Epilepsy, Polyneuritis, Ichtiosis og Anæmia af Pernicios type. Hospitalstidende, Copenhagen, 1927, 70: 525-538.
Et Tilfaelde af Hypogenitalisme (Eunuchoidismus feminus) med partiel Gigantisme og Ichthyosis.
Hospitalstidende, 1929, 72: 426-433.
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