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Abstract
Bouts of shooting pain along the extremities are common in the early stages of Fabry's disease. No pathological explanation has been advanced to clarify the mechanism of such pain. In the present case neuronal storage of glycolipid was confined to dorsal root ganglia neurones only. It is suggested that this may explain the shooting pain in Fabry's disease. In hereditary sensory radicular neuropathy, familial dysautonomia, and tabes dorsalis, changes in dorsal root ganglia cells cause similar clinical signs and thus it may be concluded that shooting pains in Fabry's disease may be caused by damage to dorsal root ganglia neurones.Entities:
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Year: 1983 PMID: 6413695 PMCID: PMC1049127 DOI: 10.1136/jmg.20.4.309
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Med Genet ISSN: 0022-2593 Impact factor: 6.318