title: [Recurrent familial neuropathy due to compression (author's transl)].
abstract: The authors describe a family, of which 13 members had peripheral neuropathy manifesting as episodes of paralysies usually provoked by minor compression of nerve trunks. Nerve and muscle biopsies in two patients, demonstrated many thickenings of the myelin sheath ("tomacula"). Electron microscopy investigations are used as a basis for discussing the origin and place of this affection among other hereditary neuropathies.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009132:Muscles / Q000473:pathology; D009138:Musculocutaneous Nerve / Q000473:pathology; D009186:Myelin Sheath / Q000473:pathology; D009408:Nerve Compression Syndromes / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D009412:Nerve Fibers / Q000473:pathology; D010243:Paralysis / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology
vernacular_title: Neuropathie récurrente par compression. Etude d'une famille de 13 membres.