periventricular nodular heterotopia (nodular brain heteropia)

Pathology

• developmental disorder
• presence of periventricular nodules of cerebral gray matter, resulting from a failure of neurons to migrate normally from the lateral ventricular proliferative zone, where they are formed, to the cerebral cortex

More general terms

• genetic disease of the central nervous system

More specific terms

• periventricular nodular heterotopia type-1
• periventricular nodular heterotopia type-2; periventricular heterotopia with microcephaly
• periventricular nodular heterotopia type-4; periventricular heterotopia Ehlers-Danlos variant