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A Japanese family with early-onset ataxia with motor and sensory neuropathy.
Journal of the neurological sciences - 15 Mar 2007
Kobayashi Shunsuke, Takuma Hiroshi, Murayama Shigeo, Sakurai Masaki, Kanazawa Ichiro
Abstract excerpt
We report the case of a Japanese family with hereditary ataxia with peripheral neuropathy. Three affected siblings from this family exhibited very similar clinical features: teenage-onset, slowly progressive ataxia, followed by distal weakness, which developed after the age of 30 years. Magnetic resonance imaging studies showed marked atrophy in the cerebellar hemisphere and vermis, and a sural nerve biopsy...
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