title: Nuclear inclusions in oculopharyngeal dystrophy. An ultrastructural study of six cases.
abstract: Nuclear inclusions in striated muscle from patients with oculopharyngeal dystrophy have been detected recently. We carried out ultrastructural examinations of biopsy specimens on 5 patients with oculopharyngeal dystrophy and we also reexamined a former case. In these 6 cases we found filamentous inclusions in a few nuclei. These inclusions seem to be characteristic of this disease as they have never been seen elsewhere.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D002479:Inclusion Bodies / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009132:Muscles / Q000648:ultrastructure; D009136:Muscular Dystrophies / Q000473:pathology*; D009801:Oculomotor Muscles / Q000648:ultrastructure; D010609:Pharyngeal Muscles / Q000648:ultrastructure