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Research Article| Volume 11, ISSUE 5, P463-487, November 1970

Hereditary sensory neuropathy

A clinical and ultrastructural study
  • W.C. Schoene
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    The Neuropathology and Neurology Services and Neurology Research Laboratories, and Dermatology Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass. U.S.A.

    the Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass. U.S.A.

    the Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass. U.S.A.
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  • A.K. Asbury
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    The Neuropathology and Neurology Services and Neurology Research Laboratories, and Dermatology Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass. U.S.A.

    the Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass. U.S.A.

    the Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass. U.S.A.
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  • K.E. Åström
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    Requests for reprints should be sent to Dr. Åström, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass. 02114.
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    The Neuropathology and Neurology Services and Neurology Research Laboratories, and Dermatology Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass. U.S.A.

    the Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass. U.S.A.

    the Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass. U.S.A.
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  • R. Masters
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    The Neuropathology and Neurology Services and Neurology Research Laboratories, and Dermatology Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass. U.S.A.

    the Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass. U.S.A.

    the Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass. U.S.A.
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  • Author Footnotes
    ∗∗ Present address: Neuropathology Branch, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, D. C. 20305.
    ∗∗∗ Present address: Department of Neurology, Herbert C. MOttiff Hospital, University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, Calif. 94122.
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-510X(70)90004-3
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      Abstract

      The clinical features and the pathological findings from sural nerve biopsies of 2 sisters with chronic, distal, symmetrical sensory neuropathy with dissociated sensory loss are reported. Clinical evaluation, electrophysiological determinations and histological and histochemical studies, as well as phase and electron microscopic observations were carried out. In biopsies from both girls the findings were substantially the same. The most prominent findings were limited to the intrafascicular contents which were composed of longitudinally-oriented collagen, many unmyelinated nerve fibers, and fibroblasts with a unique vacuolated appearance of their cytoplasm. Myelinated nerve fibers were absent except for rare axons whose appearance was normal. Neither products of nerve fiber degeneration nor Schwann cell degeneration was noted. The vacuolated endoneurial fibroblasts observed in the biopsies of these 2 sisters appear to be unique, but their role, if any, in the pathogenesis of the sensory neuropathy is unclear.
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      Publication history

      Received: November 28, 1969

      Footnotes

      ☆Presented in part at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Neuropathologists, 20 June 1969.

      ☆☆This investigation was supported in part by Grants N.B.-07500, N.B.-07596 and Training Grant NB-5393 from the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke.

      ★Dr. W. C. Schoene was supported by a Special Fellowship in Neuropathology, No. 2-F-NB-1711.

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      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-510X(70)90004-3

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