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1: Neurology. 2002 Sep 10;59(5):767-9.Click here to read Links

Corticosteroid- responsive asymmetric neuropathy with a myelin protein zero gene mutation.

Watanabe M, Yamamoto N, Ohkoshi N, Nagata H, Kohno Y, Hayashi A, Tamaoka A, Shoji S.

Department of Neurology, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. masa.wat@igaku.md.tsukuba.ac.jp

A patient with hereditary neuropathy presented with asymmetric distal weakness. On nerve biopsy, there was demyelination and onion-bulb formation, and molecular analysis revealed that the patient was heterozygous for an MPZ mutation. The patient improved with corticosteroid treatment.

PMID: 12221176 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]