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DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-981451
© Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York
Early-onset Hereditary Neuropathy with Liability to Pressure Palsy
Publication History
received 12.12.2006
accepted 26.3.2007
Publication Date:
02 July 2007 (online)
Abstract
The clinical onset of hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsy (HNPP) in childhood is rarely reported. On the basis of a 5-year-old affected patient, we reviewed the cases reported in the literature to evaluate the clinical and genetic characteristics of patients with an early onset (<10 years) of HNPP.
Key words
hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies (HNPP) - tomaculous neuropathy - children - peripheral myelin protein 22 (PMP22)
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Correspondence
P. IannettiMD
Department of Pediatrics
Child Neurology Division
University “La Sapienza”
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