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Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines




Disease sensorineural hearing loss
Phenotype C0004134|ataxia
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PubMedID- 21700976 Objective: the objective of this article is to illustrate and describe the cause, physiopathology, natural history, and clinical and imaging presentations of superficial siderosis as a cause of progressive cerebellar ataxia with sensorineural hearing loss and to discuss the therapeutic rationale.
PubMedID- 23560013 The clinical picture of a progressive worsening ataxia with sensorineural hearing loss along with the neuroimaging findings of the deposition of hemosiderin in the cerebellum clinches a diagnosis of superficial siderosis in this child, secondary to the surgery of the posterior fossa done in early childhood.
PubMedID- 23762708 Common clinical presentation includes slowly progressive cerebellar ataxia with sensorineural hearing loss being the first symptom with or without tinnitus [6].

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