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[Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease].
Presse medicale (Paris, France : 1983) - 1 Feb 2009
Birouk Nazha
Abstract excerpt
Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease, also known as peroneal muscular atrophy or hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy, is among the most frequent hereditary disorders of the nervous system. The relatively homogeneous clinical phenotype involves mainly progressive weakness and wasting of distal muscles; it starts and predominates in the peroneal muscles. Electrophysiological and pathology data distinguish two...
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