Abstract
Désiré-Magloire Bourneville ought to be thought of as the father of Pediatric Neurology for his significant contributions to the field. He worked as a physician, politician, writer, and editor. He was the first to describe the autosomal dominant genetic condition known as "tuberous sclerosis complex", after conducting an autopsy on a young female patient, where the main finding in the central nervous system was multiple dense tubers. The patient had refractory epilepsy and intellectual disability. His work was based on the study of epilepsy and idiocy, and he was also an advocate of public health and social medicine education; creating day hospital programs for children with this type of neurologic disease.
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Désiré-Magloire Bourneville ought to be thought of as the father of Pediatric Neurology for his significant contributions to the field
RESUMEN Désiré-Magloire Bourneville debería ser considerado como el padre de la Neurología Pediátrica por sus importantes contribuciones en este campo
Marie died in May 1879, and a postmortem study revealed dense tubers in the cerebral gyri, known as sclérose tubéreuse des circonvolutions cérébrales, determining them to be the cause of the seizures
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Désiré-Magloire Bourneville ought to be thought of as the father of Pediatric Neurology for his significant contributions to the field. Désiré-Magloire Bourneville was a French physician, born in Garencières, Normandy on October 21, 1840 (Figure). Bourneville was a well-known neurologist who initially described tuberous sclerosis in 1880, after he noticed white “tubers” and cerebral sclerosis at necropsy in the brains of patients with epilepsy and intellectual disability[1,2,3]. He was inspired to study Medicine in Paris by a close family friend and chief of service at the Hospice de Bicêtre, Dr Louis Delasiauve (1804-1893), who later became his mentor.
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