A case of familial amyloid polyneuropathy homozygous for the transthyretin Val30Met gene with motor-dominant sensorimotor polyneuropathy and unusual sural nerve pathological findings

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 58, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 1914-1918

  Yoshioka, Akira ^a   Yamaya, Yoko ^a   Saiki, Shinji ^a   Hirose, Genjiro ^a   Shimazaki, Kohei ^b   Nakamura, Masaaki ^c   Ando, Yukio ^c  

^a KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Hamano Hospital   (Japan)

^c KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; PREALBUMIN;

ADULT; AMYLOID NEUROPATHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FAMILIAL DISEASE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NERVE BIOPSY; NEUROPATHY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYNEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SURAL NERVE; URINE INCONTINENCE;

EID: 0034758548     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.58.11.1914     Document Type: Article

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