| Literature DB >> 12929199 |
Anne Vital1, Claude Vital, Alain Lagueny, Xavier Ferrer, Catherine Ribière-Bachelier, Philippe Latour, Klaus G Petry.
Abstract
We report a case of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT), with identified PMP22 gene duplication (CMT type 1A), and with evidence of an inflammatory demyelinating process superimposed on the course of the chronic genetic disease. Macrophage-associated demyelination was observed on the peripheral nerve biopsy. This observation supports some experimental data from the literature and shows that there may be a genetic susceptibility to inflammatory demyelinating processes in certain CMT kindreds.Entities:
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Year: 2003 PMID: 12929199 DOI: 10.1002/mus.10404
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Muscle Nerve ISSN: 0148-639X Impact factor: 3.217