Occipital pachygyria and polymicrogyria

What it is

A rare, genetic, cerebral malformation characterized by the presence of cortical smoothening with loss of secondary and tertiary gyri, associated with an excessive number of small, irregular gyri with increased cortical thickness, located in the occipital lobes. Patients usually present with seizures (including myoclonic-astatic, absence, atypical absence, vision loss, myoclonic-atonic, generalized tonic-clonic) and variable (absent to moderate) developmental and/or intellectual delay.

Key facts

Prevalence

<1 / 1 000 000

Age of onset

Infancy, Neonatal

Inheritance

Autosomal recessive

Classified as

Malformation syndrome

Prevalence figures describe populations, not individuals, and are often estimates from a single study. Where the figure is an incidence or a birth prevalence, it says so.

Gene

ICD-10 codes

ICD-10 has no distinct code for most rare diseases, so many are filed under the nearest available one. A shared code identifies the group, not this disease — the ORPHAcode above is what identifies it.

Related health topics

Reached through the ICD-10 categories this disease is filed under, so these describe the broader group rather than this disease specifically.

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