Taber's Medical Dictionary
Aicardi-Goutières syndrome
(e-kar-dē′-goo-tyer′)
[Jean François Marie Aicardi, Fr. pediatrician, b. 1926; Françoise Goutières]
A rare inherited mental retardation in which affected infants also have both encephalopathy and liver disease. It may mimic TORCH or toxoplasmosis.
SYN: SEE: pseudo-TORCH syndrome
SYN: SEE: Cree encephalitis
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Venes, Donald, editor. "Aicardi-Goutières Syndrome." Taber's Medical Dictionary, 23rd ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2017. Taber's Online, www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/765999/all/Aicardi_Goutières_syndrome.
Aicardi-Goutières syndrome. In: Venes D, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2017. https://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/765999/all/Aicardi_Goutières_syndrome. Accessed August 15, 2020.
Aicardi-Goutières syndrome. (2017). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary (23rd edition). F.A. Davis Company. Retrieved August 15, 2020, from https://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/765999/all/Aicardi_Goutières_syndrome
Aicardi-Goutières Syndrome [Internet]. In: Venes D, editors. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2017. [cited 2020 August 15]. Available from: https://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/765999/all/Aicardi_Goutières_syndrome.
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