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. 2005 Jul 19;5:25. doi: 10.1186/1471-2431-5-25

Table 2.

Aetiology of disabilities

n %
Congenital diseases
 Miller Dieker Syndrome / lissencephaly 7
 corpus callosum agenesis 5
 Cornelia de Lange syndrome 2
 Walker-Warburg syndrome 2
 unspecified abnormal brain development 16
  other non progressive syndromes 6
  other chromosomal abnormalities 9
 Rett syndrome 3
 Alpers syndrome 4
 Aicardi-Goutieres syndrome 2
  other progressive syndromes 5
 other congenital diseases 4

65 33.5
Pre and perinatal complications
 perinatal asphyxia 18
 cerebral palsy e.c.i. 13
 cerebral haemorrhage 6
 intra uterine CMV infection 5
 other infections 4
 other causes 7

53 27.3
Acquired
 meningitis / encephalitis 5
 Trauma 3
 near drowning accident 2
 Other 2

12 6.2
Combinations of causes
 congenital and acquired disease 6
 congenital disease and perinatal complications 5
 perinatal and acquired 3
 perinatal and hereditary progressive 1

15 7.7
Unknown cause
25 12.8
Missing
24 12.3

Total 194 children