Schilder's disease
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Schilder's disease may refer to two different diseases described by Paul Schilder:
- AdrenoleukodystrophyAdrenoleukodystrophyAdrenoleukodystrophy is a rare, inherited disorder that leads to progressive brain damage, failure of the adrenal glands and eventually death. ALD is a disease in a group of genetic disorders called leukodystrophies, whose chief feature is damage to myelin...
- Diffuse myelinoclastic sclerosisDiffuse myelinoclastic sclerosisDiffuse myelinoclastic sclerosis, sometimes referred to as "Schilder's disease", is a very infrequent neurodegenerative disease that presents clinically as pseudotumoural demyelinating lesions, that make its diagnosis difficult...