Abstract:
:We describe two patients with associations of hereditary neuropathies and heritable skeletal disorders not previously reported. The first patient had Marfan's syndrome and hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy Type 1. The second patient had Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Klippel-Feil syndrome and tomaculous neuropathy.
journal_name
Postgrad Med Jjournal_title
Postgraduate medical journalauthors
Chattopadhyay AK,Kandler RH,Sharrack Bdoi
10.1136/pgmj.71.834.245subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1995-04-01 00:00:00pages
245-6issue
834eissn
0032-5473issn
1469-0756journal_volume
71pub_type
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