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Letter to the Editor| Volume 372, P447-449, January 15, 2017

Simultaneous skin-nerve-muscle biopsy and abnormal mitochondrial inclusions in intranuclear hyaline inclusion body disease

Published:October 27, 2016DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2016.10.042
      Neuronal intranuclear hyaline inclusion disease (NIHID) or neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease (NIID) is a rare neurodegenerative disorder characterized by intranuclear inclusions (IIs) in neuronal and glial cells [
      • Sung J.H.
      • Ramirez-Lassepas M.
      • Mastri A.R.
      • Larkin S.M.
      An unusual degenerative disorder of neurons associated with a novel intranuclear hyaline inclusion (neuronal intranuclear hyaline inclusion disease). A clinicopathological study of a case.
      ,
      • Takahashi-Fujigasaki J.
      Neuronal intranuclear hyaline inclusion disease.
      ]. Here we report distinctive clinico-pathological findings of a sporadic case of NIHID, who had the transient improvement and episodic exacerbations of the clinical symptoms during the course and mitochondrial abnormality.

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