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Table 2 Clinical characteristics of frameshift carriers

From: Sequencing of the IL6 gene in a case–control study of cerebral palsy in children

  

n

Severity*

Moderate

2

 

Severe

6

Type of CP^

Hemiparesis

4

 

Quadriparesis

2

 

Paraparesis

1

 

Monoparesis

1

Neuroimaging

Perinatal Stroke

3

(6CT, 1MRI)

Global injury / volume loss

2

 

No abnormalities

2

 

No imaging

1

Perinatal

Emergent Caesarian

4

Complications

Preeclampsia

1

 

Maternal temp < 100.5

1

 

Meconium

1

 

Neonatal seizures

2

  1. *Moderate/severe = impaired function of most affected limb; mild = unimpaired function.
  2. ^All patients were diagnosed by a pediatric neurologist. Spasticity was present in all 8 patients; none had extra-pyramidal signs.
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