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To the Editor: Rust and Karluk (Aug. 29 issue)¹ discuss the case of a child with a neurodegenerative disorder who was found to have curvilinear lysosomal inclusion bodies on electron-micrographic analysis of a muscle-biopsy specimen. Late-onset infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis was diagnosed. The approach to confirming this diagnosis is puzzling.

The authors mention that subsequent molecular testing for the two common mutations of CLN2 failed to identify a mutation, but no enzyme testing was performed. Given that only 66 percent of patients with a clinical diagnosis of late-onset infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis are found to have mutations in CLN2,² a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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