The Griscelli-Prunieras syndrome: a case report
Salazar-Cabrera, A.N.; Matos-Martínez, M.; Sánchez-Villegas, M.C.; Lázaro-Castillo, L.M.; Méndez-León, J.; Martínez-Amigon, J.; Aguilar, M.; García-Escobar, B.
Boletin Medico del Hospital Infantil de Mexico 50(7): 503-507
1993
ISSN/ISBN: 0539-6115 PMID: 8363750 Document Number: 412053
It is presented a six-year-old girl with silvered hair syndrome, of Griscelli-Prunieras variety; hereditary sickness with regressive autosomic and distinguished by partial albinism and leukocytic alterations. She presented the acute phase of the sickness distinguished by: hepatosplenomegaly, thrombocytopenia, lymphadenopathy generalized, and systematic infection; it is corroborated how a hemophagocytic syndrome; during her evolution developed pancerebellar syndrome. By laboratory were corroborated: decrease phagocytosis, degranulation 0%, decrease of globulins gamma, neutropenia, skin test of PPD and Candidin negatives, there were not find the giant inclusions in bone marrow leukocyte and peripheric blood that are feature of Chediak-Higashi syndrome. Another alteration that was the distribution of mote of melanin on the hair that in the Griscelli-Prunieras syndrome are six times bigger in the Chediak-Higashi syndrome.