The lesions of Gomen disease consist of widespread loss of Purkinje cells with extensive deposition of lipofuscin pigment in neurones in most areas of the central nervous system. We suggest these two disease processes are related and the entity may be an acquired environmental neuronal lipofuscinosis.
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