Small-fiber involvement in spinobulbar muscular atrophy (Kennedy's disease)

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 816-820

  Manganelli, Fiore ^a   Iodice, Valeria ^a   Provitera, Vincenzo ^b   Pisciotta, Chiara ^a   Nolano, Maria ^b   Perretti, Anna ^a   Santoro, Lucio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Kennedy's disease; Skin biopsy; Small fiber

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KENNEDY DISEASE; MALE; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROPATHY; NOCICEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY SYSTEM; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN NERVE; SWEAT TEST;

ADULT; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; AUTONOMIC PATHWAYS; BIOPSY; CELL SIZE; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; GANGLIA, SPINAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECEPTORS, SENSORY; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SKIN; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDERS; SWEAT GLAND DISEASES; SWEAT GLANDS; SYMPATHETIC FIBERS, POSTGANGLIONIC; WALLERIAN DEGENERATION;

EID: 37049034671     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.20872     Document Type: Article

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