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Michele Toppet, MD; N. Telerman-Toppet, MD; H. B. Szliwowski, MD; M. Vainsel, MD; C. Coers, MD

Am J Dis Child. 1977;131(4):437-441.

Abstract
• During a six-year period, an adolescent girl developed a polyglandular disease characterized by hypoparathyroidism, chemical diabetes, growth failure and pubertal delay, hypercholesterolemia, and hypomagnesemia. A slowly progressive neurological disorder occurred simultaneously, consisting of progressive external ophthalmoplegia, mitochondrial myopathy, ataxia, neural deafness, mental subnormality, atypical retinitis, corneal dystrophy, cataract, and increased protein level in the cerebrospinal fluid. An intracardiac conduction defect was also found. This disorder, the cause of which is uncertain, is termed oculocraniosomatic disease. Our patient is apparently unique in that there was an associated hypoparathyroidism.

(Am J Dis Child 131:437-441, 1977)

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Pediatrics, Hôpital Saint-Pierre (Drs Toppet and Vainsel), the Department of Neurology, Hôpital Brugmann (Drs Telerman-Toppet and Coers), and the Cytology and Experimental Cancerology Laboratory, Free University of Brussels (Dr Szliwowski), Brussels.

Footnotes
Reprint requests to Department of Pediatrics, Hôpital Saint-Pierre, rue Haute 322, 1000 Brussels, Belgium (Dr Toppet).

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