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Cystinosis distal myopathy, novel clinical, pathological and genetic features.
Neuromuscular disorders : NMD - 1 Sept 2017
Cabrera-Serrano Macarena, Junckerstorff Reimar C, Alisheri Ali, Pestronk Alan, Laing Nigel G, Weihl Conrad C, Lamont Phillipa J
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Nephropathic cystinosis is an autosomal recessive lysosomal disease in which cystine cannot exit the lysosome to complete its degradation in the cytoplasm, thus accumulating in tissues. Some patients develop a distal myopathy involving mainly hand muscles. Myopathology descriptions from only 5 patients are available in the literature. We present a comprehensive clinical, pathological and genetic description of 3...
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