ICD-11 classes
05 Endocrine, nutritional or metabolic diseases
Metabolic disorders
Inborn errors of metabolism
5C56 — Lysosomal diseases
5C56.1 — Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis
ICD-11 5C56.1 — Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis
Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses (NCLs) are a group of inherited progressive degenerative brain diseases characterised clinically by a decline of mental and other capacities, epilepsy, and vision loss through retinal degeneration, and histopathologically by intracellular accumulation of an autofluorescent material, ceroid lipofuscin, in the neuronal cells in the brain and in the retina.
The diagnosis includes nothing.
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.
The diagnosis is coded elsewhere: