Article
Choreo-acanthocytosis like phenotype without acanthocytes: clinicopathological case report. A contribution to the knowledge of the functional pathology of the caudate nucleus.
Acta neuropathologica - 1 Jan 1993
Malandrini A, Fabrizi G M, Palmeri S, Ciacci G, Salvadori C, Berti G, Bucalossi A, Federico A, Guazzi G C
Abstract excerpt
Detailed clinical and neuropathological findings in two unrelated patients with a chorea-acanthocytosis-like phenotype (CA) are reported. One case met all the diagnostic criteria of CA and had a deceased brother with the same disease. The second case had a virtually identical phenotype to the for...
Topics
- Acanthocytes
- Adult
- Athetosis
- Autopsy
- Caudate Nucleus
- Chorea
- Humans
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Male
- Microscopy, Electron
- Muscles
- Nerve Fibers
- Phenotype
- Sciatic Nerve
- Sural Nerve