Corticosteroid-responsive asymmetric neuropathy with a myelin protein zero gene mutation

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Watanabe, M [1 ]
Yamamoto, N [1 ]
Ohkoshi, N [1 ]
Nagata, H [1 ]
Kohno, Y [1 ]
Hayashi, A [1 ]
Tamaoka, A [1 ]
Shoji, S [1 ]
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[1] Ibaraki Prefectural Univ Hlth Sci, Ctr Med Sci, Div Clin Neurol & Neurosci, Ibaraki, Japan
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10.1212/WNL.59.5.767
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R74 [神经病学与精神病学];
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A patient with hereditary neuropathy presented with asymmetric distal weakness. On nerve biopsy, there was demyelination and onion-bulb formation, and molecular analysis revealed that the patient was heterozygous for an MPZ mutation. The patient improved with corticosteroid treatment.
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