Taber's Medical Dictionary
Aicardi-Goutières syndrome
(e-kar-dē′-goo-tyer′)
[Jean François Marie Aicardi, Fr. pediatrician, b. 1926; Françoise Goutières]
A rare inherited mental retardation in which affected infants also have both encephalopathy and liver disease. It may mimic TORCH or toxoplasmosis.
SYN: SEE: pseudo-TORCH syndrome
SYN: SEE: Cree encephalitis
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Venes, Donald, editor. "Aicardi-Goutières Syndrome." Taber's Medical Dictionary, 24th ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2021. Nursing Central, nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/765999/all/Aicardi_Gouti��res_syndrome.
Aicardi-Goutières syndrome. In: Venes DD, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2021. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/765999/all/Aicardi_Gouti��res_syndrome. Accessed March 24, 2023.
Aicardi-Goutières syndrome. (2021). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary (24th ed.). F.A. Davis Company. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/765999/all/Aicardi_Gouti��res_syndrome
Aicardi-Goutières Syndrome [Internet]. In: Venes DD, editors. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2021. [cited 2023 March 24]. Available from: https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/765999/all/Aicardi_Gouti��res_syndrome.
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