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Inter-nerves and intra-nerve conduction heterogeneity in CMTX with Arg(15)Gln mutation.
Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology - 1 Jan 2004
Capasso M, Di Muzio A, Ferrarini M, De Angelis M V, Caporale C M, Lupo S, Cavallaro T, Fabrizi G M, Uncini A
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OBJECTIVE: In X-linked Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMTX), electrophysiological and histopathological studies have suggested either a demyelinating or an axonal polyneuropathy. We report a CMTX family with a striking heterogeneity of nerve conductions between and within nerves. METHODS: Two men and one woman have been studied by conduction velocities, sural nerve biopsy with morphometry (one man) and DNA...
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