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Hereditary spastic paraplegia: genetic heterogeneity and genotype-phenotype correlation.
Seminars in neurology - 1 Jan 1999
Fink J K, Hedera P
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Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) is a group of disorders whose primary symptom is insidiously progressive, lower extremity spasticity and weakness. Neuropathological analysis of "pure" HSP reveals axonal degeneration that is maximal in the terminal portions of the longest descending and ascending tracts (crossed and uncrossed corticospinal tracts to the legs and fasciculus gracilis, respectively). HSP may be...
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