Article
[Familial spastic paraparesis: phenotypic variant of adrenoleukodystrophy].
Neurologia (Barcelona, Spain) - 1 Jan 1990
de Andrés C, Giménez-Roldán S
Abstract excerpt
Two brothers developed a slowly progressive paraparesis during adulthood, lately associated in one to primary adrenal and gonadal insufficiency but no electrophysiological evidence of peripheral nerve involvement. Both patients and an asymptomatic sister had increased plasma concentrations of very-long chain fatty acids (VLCFA). A CT-scan of the propositus was initially normal but showed at follow-up diffuse...
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