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. 1992 Sep;42(9):1755-61.
doi: 10.1212/wnl.42.9.1755.

Autosomal recessive form of hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy type I

A A Gabreëls-Festen  1 , F J Gabreëls, F G Jennekens, E M Joosten, T W Janssen-van Kempen
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Autosomal recessive form of hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy type I

A A Gabreëls-Festen et al. Neurology. 1992 Sep.

Abstract

We studied pathologic changes in sural nerve biopsies from four patients with probable autosomal recessive (AR) hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy (HMSN) type I with a median motor nerve conduction velocity greater than 10 m/sec, comparing them with the pathologic features in autosomal dominant (AD) HMSN type I. The four recessive and two sporadic cases showed segmental demyelination. However, the classic onion bulbs of concentric Schwann cell processes, which occur in AD type I, were rare; many axons, also of a smaller size, were surrounded by onion bulbs of basal laminae. Schwann cells of the myelinated and unmyelinated types were involved in these onion bulb formations. Patients with HMSN type I who have many basal lamina onion bulbs should be considered as having AR inheritance.

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