Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome: a rare disorder of self-mutilating behavior

• Main Authors: Mrinal Gupta (Author), Vikram K. Mahajan (Author), Vikas Sharma (Author), Pushpinder S. Chauhan (Author), Karaninder S. Mehta (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Our Dermatology Online, 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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This paper describes Lesch-Nyhan syndrome in a 1-year-old boy. This X-linked recessive error of purine metabolism presents in infancy with a constellation of mental and developmental retardation, self-mutilating behavior, neurological features and abnormal urine uric acid: creatinine ratio. The basi...