RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Acute inflammatory neuropathy in Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
JF Neurology
JO Neurology
FD Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
SP 859
OP 859
DO 10.1212/WNL.52.4.859
VO 52
IS 4
A1 Malandrini, Alessandro
A1 Villanova, Marcello
A1 Dotti, Maria Teresa
A1 Federico, Antonio
YR 1999
UL http://n.neurology.org/content/52/4/859.abstract
AB Article abstract The authors report an association between acute inflammatory neuropathy and previously undiagnosed Charcot-Marie-Tooth 1A disease in a 15-year-old girl. Sural nerve biopsy study showed hypertrophic neuropathy with endoneurial infiltrates of macrophages and lymphocytes. This association may be coincidental, but a particular susceptibility to damage of these peripheral nerves cannot be excluded. This report confirms the importance of pes cavus as a sign of long-standing sensorimotor neuropathy.