Malignant melanoma and Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease: A further case
β Scribed by Manoukian, Siranoush; Briscioli, Vincenza; Lalatta, Faustina
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 43 KB
- Volume
- 68
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0148-7299
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
Concurrence of myasthenia gravis (MG) and Charcot-Marie-Tooth type 1 (CMT1A) neuropathy is rare. We describe a 60-year-old woman with MG and genetically proved CMT1A. The fluctuating ocular symptoms and proximal limb weakness were markedly improved by pyridostigmine treatment. Recognition of the pos
X-linked Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT-X) is caused by mutations of connexin-32 (Cx-32), which encodes a gap-junction protein. Whether the neuropathy is primarily demyelinative or axonal remains to be established. We report findings of prominent demyelination in a 71-year-old woman with late-ons
This report describes two families with type 1 Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMTX), or hereditary motor sensory neuropathy type 1. Pedigree analysis is consistent with Xlinked recessive inheritance in one family and X-linked dominant inheritance in the second. In the first family, a mutation in the c