Chédiak-Higashi syndrome: a case report on an African infant.
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1990-09Author
Nantulya FN.
Kitonyi Grace W.
Kituuka PN.
Owade J.
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An African Kenyan female infant was born with very light skin and ashen grey, scanty hair. At 18 months she presented with a bluish skin pigmentation, hepatosplenomegaly, generalised lymphadenopathy and non-responsive fever. A bone marrow aspirate and peripheral blood examination done revealed characteri¬stic features of the Chediak-Higashi Syndrome. This is a rare disorder, to our knowledge not previously described in Africans. The case is presented with a brief review of the literature
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http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/12091http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2253577
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East African Medical Journal Vol. 67 No.9 September 1990Collections
- Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) [10387]