Pontocerebellar hypoplasia type 10

What it is

A rare, genetic, pontocerebellar hypoplasia subtype characterized by severe psychomotor developmental delay, progressive microcephaly, progressive spasticity, seizures, and brain abnormalities consisting of mild atrophy of the cerebellum, pons and corpus callosum and cortical atrophy with delayed myelination. Patients may present dysmorphic facial features (high arched eyebrows, prominent eyes, long palpebral fissures and eyelashes, broad nasal root, and hypoplastic alae nasi) and an axonal sensorimotor neuropathy.

Key facts

Prevalence

<1 / 1 000 000

Age of onset

Neonatal

Inheritance

Autosomal recessive

Classified as

Clinical subtype

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.

Signs and symptoms

These ranges are how often a sign appears across everyone diagnosed, not a prediction for one person — most people have some of these and not others. Orphanet also records findings that are specifically absent in this disease; those are in the data but not listed here.

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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