Journal of Nobel Medical College Teaching Hospital
Vol. 1 No. 2
Dyke-Davidoff-Masson Syndrome
Naba Raj Koirala
Head Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health
Nobel Medical College and Teaching Hospital, Kanchanbari, Biratnagar
Roshana Khadka
Manoj Bhattarai
Dibya Tulachan
Ajay Kumar Das
Jwalanta Poudel
Tags : DDMS, Seizure, mental retardation, Hemiatrophy, hypoplasia, cerebral hemisphere
Abstract
Dyke-Davidoff-Masson Syndrome (DDMS) is characterized by seizures, facial asymmetry, contralateral hemiplegia and mental retardation. The characteristic radiologic features are cerebral hemiatrophy with homolateral hypertrophy of the skull and sinuses. Here we report a case of a 16 years young girl who presented with seizures severe mental retardation and weakness of left upper-limb and on CT brain was diagnosed to have DDMS.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jonmc.v1i2.7306
Journal of Nobel Medical College (2012), Vol.1 No.2 p.84-86