Neurodegeneration with Brain Iron Accumulation in an Eleven-Year-Old Jamaican Male

Neurodegeneration with Brain Iron Accumulation in an Eleven-Year-Old Jamaican Male

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We present a case pitchy delight onee stick of an eleven-year-old boy presenting with progressive extrapyramidal signs and dementia.His imaging findings demonstrated the classic eye-of-the-tiger sign on T2W magnetic resonance imaging.He was diagnosed with pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration (PKAN).This is a rare autosomal recessive inborn error of coenzyme A metabolism, caused by mutations in PANK2.

This is the boneflesh d2 first reported case of PKAN from the Caribbean.