Article
Recurrent brachial plexus palsies as the only clinical expression of hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies associated with a de novo deletion of the peripheral myelin protein-22 gene.
Muscle & nerve - 1 Sept 1998
Stögbauer F, Young P, Kerschensteiner M, Ringelstein E B, Assmann G, Funke H
Abstract excerpt
There is phenotypic heterogeneity in patients with hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies. In rare cases, recurrent brachial plexopathy is the only expression of the disease. We describe a patient with three episodes of plexus brachialis palsy and a de novo deletion of the perip...
Topics
- Adult
- Brachial Plexus
- Gene Deletion
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Hereditary Sensory and Motor Neuropathy
- Humans
- Male
- Myelin Proteins
- Paralysis
- Pedigree
- Recurrence