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[Axilla skin biopsy in the diagnosis of Lafora's disease]
A Pérez Sempere1, R Simón, B Martínez Menéndez
1Sección de Neurología Infantil, Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid.
Neurologia (Barcelona, Spain)
|May 1, 1994
Abstract:
Skin biopsy is the method of choice for the diagnosis of Lafora's disease. The presence of PAS (+) inclusions characteristic of Lafora's disease has been thought to be more evident in aprocrine glands of the axillary skin than in the duct cells of the eccrine glands. We describe 4 patients with Lafora's disease diagnosed by axilla skin biopsy, confirming the usefulness of this procedure.