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SUBMITTER: van Alfen N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1739556 | biostudies-other | 2005 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
van Alfen N N Gabreëls-Festen A A W M AA Ter Laak H J HJ Arts W F M WF Gabreëls F J M FJ van Engelen B G M BG
Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 20050301 3
We report the findings in five muscle and three sural nerve biopsies, and in one postmortem plexus specimen, from six patients with hereditary neuralgic amyotrophy (HNA). We found that the sensory nerves are definitely involved in HNA despite the mainly motor symptoms, and that lesions in nerves and muscles are more widespread throughout the peripheral nervous system than clinically presumed, but, simultaneously, very focally affect isolated fascicles within individual nerves. ...[more]