Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies: the same molecular defect can result in diverse clinical presentation.

doi:10.1007/BF00868518

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Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies: the same molecular defect can result in diverse clinical presentation.

Journal of neurology - 1 Mar 1996

Andreadou E, Yapijakis C, Paraskevas G P, Stavropoulos P, Karadimas C, Zis V P, Davaki P, Karandreas N, Rentzos M, Tsakanikas C, Vassilopoulos D, Papageorgiou C

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Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies (HNPP) is a peripheral nerve disorder characterized by autosomal dominant inheritance, recurrent pressure palsies, reduced motor and sensory conduction velocities and sausage-like swellings (tomacula) of myelin sheaths in nerve biopsy. Two young adult patients are reported as index cases of two families in which HNPP was diagnosed. The first patient...

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Adult
Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Humans
Male
Paralysis
Pedigree
Peripheral Nervous System Diseases
Pressure

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PMID: 8936351
DOI: 10.1007/BF00868518

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