Pediatric Lesch-Nihan Syndrome

Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (Lesch-Nyhan syndrome) is also known as self-destructive appearance syndrome. The clinical characteristics of this disease are boys' onset, mental retardation, dancing hand-foot movement, cerebral palsy, forced self-harm, aggressive behavior And hyperuricemia. The disease is common in children with metabolic abnormality of purine due to abnormal uric acid metabolism. Lesch and Nyhan first reported and described the disease in 1964.

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