Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis
ICD-10 Code
E75.4
Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis
Definition
A group of inherited progressive degenerative brain diseases characterized clinically by a decline of mental and other capacities, epilepsy, and vision loss through retinal degeneration, and histopathologically by intracellular accumulation of an autofluorescent material, ceroid lipofuscin, in the neuronal cells in the brain and in the retina.
Also known as ceroid lipofuscinoses, NCL, neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis — per MONDO