Endocrine Abstracts

A 32-year-old man was referred for investigation of spastic paraparesis. There was a history of two seizures in the past. Of note was that his mother had previously been investigated for a mild spastic paraparesis, and had been diagnosed with idiopathic generalised epilepsy. MRI scan of the cervical and thoracic cord appeared normal but the MRI brain scan showed diffuse high signal intensity areas in the occipital white matter of both cerebral hemispheres. An EEG suggested idi...