Medical Definition of Flatau-Schilder disease

1. Term used to describe at least two separate disorders described by Schilder: 1) Diffuse sclerosis or encephalitis periaxialis diffusa; a nonfamilial disorder affecting primarily children and young adults and characterised by progressive dementia, visual disturbances, deafness, pseudobulbar palsy, and hemiplegia or quadriplegia. Most patients die within a few years of onset; pathologically, there is a large, asymmetrical area of myelin destruction, sometimes involving an entire cerebral hemisphere, and typically with extension across the corpus callosum. 2) The leukodystrophies. Synonym: encephalitis periaxialis diffusa, Flatau-Schilder disease. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flatau-Schilder Disease

Flacourtia indica
Flacourtiaceae
Flag Day
Flagyl
Flaminian Way
Flaminius
Flammkuchen
Flammulina
Flammulina velutipes
Flamsteedian
Flanders
Flanders poppy
Flannery O'Connor
Flatau's law
Flatau-Schilder disease (current term)
Flathead
Flatheads
Flaubert
Flaujeac factor
Flaundrish
Flavia
Flavian
Flavian dynasty
Flavin
Flavius Josephus
Flavobacterium aquatile
Flavobacterium breve
Flavobacterium piscicida
Flaxedil

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