TY - BOOK AU - Ibrahim Mohamed Osama Touny Hegazy AU - Ghada Mohamed Elhossiny Abdelsalam , AU - Marian Yousry Fahmy , AU - Sawsan Abdelhady Hassan , TI - Interferon alpha as a diagnostic marker in Egyptian children clinically diagnosed with Aicardi Goutiėres syndrome / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Ibrahim Mohamed Osama Touny Hegazy , KW - Aicardi Goutiėres syndrome KW - Congenital infection KW - Intracranial calcification N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Pediatrics; Issued also as CD N2 - aicardi-goutieres syndrome (AGS) is a congenital infection - like syndrome which is recently considered to be due to an underlying interferonopathy (Rice et al. 2007; crow 2011). Historically it was first described in eight children from five families in 1984 who presented with an early onset encephalopathy intracranial calcification and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) lymphocytosis despite negative serology for infection (Aicardi and Goutiėres 1984) UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -