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  • Title: Dynamic aspects of peripheral nerve changes in progressive neural muscular atrophy: light- and electronmicroscopic studies of serial nerve biopsies.
    Author: Meier C, Maibach R, Isler W, Bischoff A.
    Journal: J Neurol; 1976 Jan 14; 211(2):111-24. PubMed ID: 55467.
    Abstract:
    Serial nerve biopsies were performed at an early, and at an advanced stage of the disease in 2 patients with progressive neural muscular atrophy. The early biopsy showed a complete loss of the large diameter and thickly myelinated fibres, as well as an expansion of the endoneurial interstitium in both cases. Myelinated and unmyelinated fibres exhibited axonal degeneration in all biopsies occasionally. "Onion bulb" formation, a typical feature of peripheral neuropathy in neural muscular atrophy, was found to be prominent only in the latter biopsies. As regards the formal pathogenesis of hypertrophic neuropathy in neural muscular atrophy, axonal dystrophy and interstitial changes of the endoneurium were regarded as primary phenomena, demyelination and "onion bulb" formation as secondary. A possible causal relation between axonal dystrophy and interstitial changes, observed in these cases, is discussed in the light of the present literature.
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