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3014798

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1986-7-25
pubmed:abstractText
We report the findings of an electrophysiological study in 9 patients affected by olivopontocerebellar atrophy, 4 with a dominant form and 5 with a sporadic form. Superficial peroneal nerve biopsy was obtained from 2 patients. The electrophysiological alterations were signs of collateral reinnervation and loss of motor units, decrease in sensory potential amplitude and increase in distal motor latency. Only a slight reduction in motor and sensory conduction velocity was observed in some cases. Nerve biopsy showed slight reduction of the number of myelinated fibres. In the first case, fibre diameter distribution was unimodal, due to reduction of myelinated fibres of large diameter, in the second case there was no significant alteration of the fibre distribution. In both cases short internodes were present with no signs of segmental demyelination, remyelination or axonal degeneration. The alterations observed in the peripheral nervous system are probably secondary to a lesion of the posterior root ganglion and the anterior horn cell in the spinal cord.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0001-6314
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
73
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
363-71
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1986
pubmed:articleTitle
Sensory and motor peripheral neuropathy in olivopontocerebellar atrophy.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't