Upper limb neuropathy such as carpal tunnel syndrome as an initial manifestation of ATTR Val30Met familial amyloid polyneuropathy

Amyloid

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 32-35

  Tojo, Kana ^a   Tsuchiya Suzuki, Ayako ^a   Sekijima, Yoshiki ^a   Morita, Hiroshi ^a   Sumita, Naoko ^b   Ikeda, Shu Ichi ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carpal tunnel syndrome; Familial amyloid polyneuropathy; Val30Met

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; METHIONINE; PREALBUMIN; VALINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; CASE REPORT; CONSTIPATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DYSAUTONOMIA; FAMILIAL AMYLOID POLYNEUROPATHY; FAMILIAL AMYLOIDOSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; JAPANESE; LIMB DYSESTHESIA; LIMB WEAKNESS; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NERVE BIOPSY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; STOMACH BIOPSY; STOMACH MUCOSA; SURAL NERVE; THENAR; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY;

AGED; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMYLOID; AMYLOID NEUROPATHIES, FAMILIAL; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PREALBUMIN;

EID: 77149177067     PISSN: 13506129     EISSN: 17442818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13506121003619369     Document Type: Article

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