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Batten, Frederick E ( 1866 - 1918)

Batten's disease = juvenile neuronal ceroid-lipofusciniosis

  • autosomal recessive disorder
  • progressive visual deterioration with pigmentary changes and optic atrophy
  • intellectual deterioration
  • epilepsy
  • early death

 
Curriculum Vitae

Nationality

English neurologist, National Hospital for Nervous Disorders
Born in Plymouth, England
Undergraduate:
Medicine in St. Bartholomew's Hospital


Postgraduate:

Pathologist, Hospital for Sick Children
Physician, National Hospital, Queen Square
Cause of death:
Died  of haemorrhage from  prostate operation
Publication:
Batten FE (1903) Cerebral degeneration with symmetrical changes in the maculae in two members of a family. Trans Ophthalmol Soc UK 23: 386

 
 
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