| RAVINE syndrome is an extremely rare genetic neurological disorder reported in a small number of patients in a specific community on Reunion Island (France) with manifestation of infantile anorexia, irrepressible and repeated vomiting, acute brainstem dysfunction, severe failure to thrive, and progressive encephalopathy with MRI showing vanishing of posterior fossa along with supra-tentorial periventricular white-matter hyperintensities and basal ganglion anomalies. |