Polyneuropathy with minifascicle formation in a patient with 46XY mixed gonadal dysgenesis

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 309-312

  Umehara, Fujio ^a   Yamaguchi, Naoki ^a   Kodama, Daisuke ^a   Takenaga, Satoshi ^a   Kiwaki, Takashiro ^a   Sonoda, Yoshito ^a   Arimura, Yumiko ^a   Yamada, Hirohisa ^a   Arimura, Kimiyoshi ^a   Osame, Mitsuhiro ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mental retardation; Minifascicle; Mixed gonadal dysgenesis; Polyneuropathy; Sural nerve

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DENSITY; FEMALE; GONADAL DYSGENESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE BIOPSY; POLYNEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SURAL NERVE;

ADULT; BIOPSY; FEMALE; GONADAL DYSGENESIS, MIXED; HUMANS; MEDIAN NERVE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEURAL CONDUCTION; POLYNEUROPATHIES; SURAL NERVE; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0032870346     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004010051085     Document Type: Article

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