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Updated: Nov 24, 2009
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![]() | Media file 1: Four-month-old patient with classic Menkes disease. His hair is depigmented and lusterless with pili torti and the skin is pale with eczema. |
![]() | Media file 2: Diverticula of the bladder in a boy with Menkes disease. |
![]() | Media file 3: The clavicles are short with hammer-shaped distal ends in a patient with Menkes disease. |
![]() | Media file 4: Flared metaphyses of the ulna and radius in a 5-month-old patient with classic Menkes disease. |
![]() | Media file 5: Lax skin in a patient with occipital horn syndrome. |
![]() | Media file 6: Occipital horns (arrow) in a 14-year-old boy with occipital horn syndrome. |
![]() | Media file 7: Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain of a patient with Menkes disease. Subdural effusion is evident in the left frontal lesion. Brain atrophy is also evident. |
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Further Reading
Keywords
Menkes disease, neurodegenerative disease, impaired copper transport, abnormal copper metabolism, kinky hair disease, dietary copper, occipital horn syndrome, X-linked cutis laxa, Ehlers-Danlos type 9, Xq13.3 gene














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