Central vestibular involvement in peroneal muscle atrophy: a preliminary report.
A family is presented in which 6 out of 8 members were found to have peroneal muscle atrophy. Neurophysiological and histopathological evidence for the hypertrophic form of this disease was obtained in 3 patients. Three patients with peroneal muscle atrophy and 1 unaffected family member had abnormal differential caloric tests. This is the first report of an apparently hereditary dysfunction of the central vestibular system associated with a hereditary neuropathy.
D002150:Caloric Tests; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009133:Muscular Atrophy / Q000235:genetics* / Q000503:physiopathology; D009434:Neural Pathways / Q000503:physiopathology; D014724:Vestibular Function Tests; D014726:Vestibular Nuclei / Q000503:physiopathology*