✦ LIBER ✦
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
✍ Scribed by Florian Stögbauer; Peter Young; Max Kerschensteiner; E. Bernd Ringelstein; Gerd Assmann; Harald Funke
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 72 KB
- Volume
- 21
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0148-639X
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✦ Synopsis
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 peripheral myelin protein-22 gene. We conclude that DNA analysis is a key issue not only for the differentiation of peripheral neuropathies but also in the diagnosis of recurrent plexopathies.