JPSIM Journal of Pakistan Society of Internal Medicine J Pak Soc Intern Med 2709-8729 2710-0804 Pakistan Society of Internal Medicine 10.70302/jpsim.v5i1.2418 jpsim.v5i1.2418 Case Report Hallervorden Spatz Disease: A Rare Case with Classical Disease Presentation in a 9 Year Old Girl Shabir Sadia drsadiashabir@gmail.com * Arshad Navaira Hamid Muhammad Haroon Mayo Hospital Lahore *Correspondence: Sadia Shabir (drsadiashabir@gmail.com) 28 02 2024 2024 5 1 438 440 17 10 2023 11 12 2023 Copyright © 2024 The Author(s) 2024 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Hallervorden-spatz disease, now known as pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration PKAN disease comes under the umbrella of new term neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation (NBIA). Classically it affects children in adolescent age.Clinicalfeaturesrange fromsevere extrapyramidal effectslike dystonia and athetosisto psychiatric disturbances. Some patientsmay develop eye involvementin the formofretinitis pigmentosa.Diagnosisis usually clinical and supported by MRIfindings oftiger-eyes appearance of basal ganglia.Available treatmentis only symptomatic not curative.In thisreport we have discussed the classical presentation of hallervorden spatz disease in a 9 year old girl who was diagnosed on the basis of clinical findings, eye changes along with MRI findings.

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