Recurrent brachial plexus palsies as the only clinical expression of hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies associated with a de novo deletion of the peripheral myelin protein-22 gene

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1199-1201

  Stögbauer, Florian ^a   Young, Peter ^a   Kerschensteiner, Max ^c   Ringelstein, E Bernd ^a   Assmann, Gerd ^a,b   Funke, Harald ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c Abteilung Neurologie   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies; Heterogeneity; Peripheral myelin protein 22 gene deletion; Phenotype

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE DELETION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE;

ADULT; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; GENE DELETION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HEREDITARY MOTOR AND SENSORY NEUROPATHIES; HUMANS; MALE; MYELIN PROTEINS; PARALYSIS; PEDIGREE; RECURRENCE;

EID: 2642704986     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199809)21:9<1199::AID-MUS12>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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