Worster-Drought syndrome
Worster-Drought syndrome is a form of congenital suprabulbar paresis that occurs in some children with
A 1986 study of a family in which multiple members had Worster-Drought syndrome suggested it might be hereditary.[3]
A 2000 review of cases classified Worster-Drought Syndrome as a form of cerebral palsy, caused by early damage to the brain, but identified no obvious causes during gestation or birth and found some families with a history of the condition.[4] The syndrome was named after Cecil Charles Worster-Drought, the doctor who described it in 1956.[citation needed]
References
Sources
- Worster-Drought C (August 1956). "Congenital suprabulbar paresis". The Journal of Laryngology and Otology. 70 (8): 453–63. PMID 13357872.
- Malcolm Ray McNeil, Clinical Management of Sensorimotor Speech Disorders, New York: Thieme, 1997, p. 407.
- Bianca Specht-Moser, "Die Behandlung des Kausystems in der Kinder- und Jugendneurorehabilitation - Elemente eines Rehabilitationspfades" MS Thesis, Danube University Krems, September 2004 (pdf, German)
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