Childhood-onset autosomal recessive myopathy with external ophthalmoplegia is a very rare genetic muscle disease. It mainly affects the muscles that move the ...

Childhood type dermatomyositis is usually called juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM). It is a rare disease where a child’s own defense system (immune system) ...

Myoseptumitis is a medical word that means inflammation of the myoseptum, which is the thin wall of tissue inside a muscle that separates small bundles of ...

Myoseptum inflammation is a thin sheet of strong connective tissue that lies between blocks of muscle fibers. It acts like a wall or partition inside the ...

Inflammation of myoseptum is another medical name for childhood type dermatomyositis, also called juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM). It is a rare disease in ...

Childhood dermatomyositis (often called juvenile dermatomyositis, JDM) is a rare disease where a child’s immune system attacks tiny blood vessels in the skin ...

Paediatric optic nerve glioma is a usually slow-growing brain/nerve tumor that starts in the supportive “glial” cells around the optic nerve (the cable that ...

Glioma of the paediatric visual pathway means a brain tumour that grows along the child’s “seeing wires.” These wires include the optic nerves (behind each ...

Childhood optic tract glioma is a type of brain tumour that grows in the optic tract, which is the cable of nerve fibres that carries visual information from ...

Childhood optic nerve glioma is a slow-growing brain tumor that starts in the cells that support and protect the optic nerve, the cable that carries sight ...

Paroxysmal exercise-induced dystonia (PED) is a rare brain movement problem. It causes short attacks of abnormal movements when a person does long or strong ...

Childhood onset GLUT1 deficiency syndrome 2 (GLUT1DS2) is a rare brain disease that starts in childhood and mainly causes short attacks of strange movements in ...

Childhood medulloblastoma is a cancer that starts in a part of the brain called the cerebellum. The cerebellum sits at the back and bottom of the brain and ...

Pediatric melanoma (also called childhood melanoma) is a cancer that starts in the pigment-making cells (melanocytes) of a child’s skin, eye, or very rarely ...

Childhood malignant melanoma is a type of skin cancer that starts in pigment-making cells called melanocytes in a child or teenager. These cells give skin, ...

Childhood encephalopathy due to thiamine pyrophosphokinase deficiency is a very rare genetic brain disease that starts in babies or young children. In this ...

Symbiotic psychosis is a rare mental health problem where two or more people who are very close to each other share the same strange belief (delusion). One ...

Heller syndrome is an old name for a rare brain and development problem in children. Doctors now usually call it childhood disintegrative disorder (CDD), and ...

Disintegrative psychosis is an old name for a very rare child development problem now called childhood disintegrative disorder (CDD). In this condition, a ...

Dementia infantilis is an old name for a rare brain and development problem that is now called childhood disintegrative disorder (CDD) or Heller syndrome. It ...