Pallister‐Killian syndrome: a common yet under‐recognised cause of epileptic spasms

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epd.2013.0618 Auteur(s) : Shailendra Kapoor shailendrakapoor@yahoo 23111 Mechanicsville Virginia, USA To the Editor, I read with great interest the recent article by de Palma et al. (2012), entitled “Eating-induced epileptic spasms in a boy with MECP2 duplication syndrome: insights into pathogenesis of genetic epilepsies”. A common cause of “epileptic spasms” that is often overlooked and under recognised is Pallister-Killian syndrome (PKS). PKS or “Pallister mosaic aneuploidy syndrome” [...]