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Hereditary neuralgic amyotrophy and hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies: two distinct clinical, electrophysiologic, and genetic entities.
Neurology - 1 Dec 1994
Gouider R, LeGuern E, Emile J, Tardieu S, Cabon F, Samid M, Weissenbach J, Agid Y, Bouche P, Brice A
Abstract excerpt
Hereditary neuralgic amyotrophy (HNA) is an autosomal disease characterized by painful episodes of brachial palsy. The presence of tomacula in some patients suggested that HNA might be genetically related to hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies (HNPP), caused by point mutations in the PMP22 gene or deletion of the region containing this gene. In a clinical, electrophysiologic, and molecular...
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