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  • Title: Recurrent familial neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies: reports of two cases and ultrastructural nerve study.
    Author: Dubi J, Regli F, Bischoff A, Schneider C, de Crousaz G.
    Journal: J Neurol; 1979 Jan 30; 220(1):43-55. PubMed ID: 84066.
    Abstract:
    Electrophysiological, histological and ultrastructural studies on two patients (one family) with familial neuropathy and a liability to pressure palsies are reported. There was slowing of nerve conduction velocities and increase of distal latencies of clinically affected and clinically non-affected nerves. These alterations were confirmed by biopsy of the sural nerive which had the characterized signs of the disease. Pathogenetically there seems to be an endogeneous metabolic defect of the Schwann cell to synthetize a normal myelin sheath, which is responsible for the particular susceptibility to mechanical damage.
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