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A family with tomaculous neuropathy mimicking Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
F Barbieri1, R Santangelo, C Crisci
1Department of Neurology, Second School of Medicine, University of Naples, Italy.
Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
The appearance of Guillain-Barré syndrome in a 9-year-old girl led to the detection of a hereditary neuropathy in her family. This neuropathy showed clinical and electrophysiological characteristics of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. Only nerve biopsy performed in a sister of the proband allowed diagnosis of tomaculous neuropathy which presented unusual clinical, electrophysiological and bioptic aspects.