Nemaline rods in chorea-acanthocytosis.
In chorea-acanthocytosis, a neurological disorder associated with multisystem degeneration, amyotrophy and peripheral neuropathy are sometimes conspicuous. We describe a patient with chorea-acanthocytosis who showed distributed nemaline rods in biopsied muscle. It has been suggested that in chorea-acanthocytosis, the muscle membranous structures are disordered, and our finding may be attributable to this underlying myopathic condition.
Tamura
Yohei
Y
Department of Neurology, Jikei University School of Medicine, 3-25-8, Nishi-Shinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8461, Japan. y.tamura@jikei.ac.jp
Matsui
Kazutaka
K
Yaguchi
Hiroshi
H
Hashimoto
Masaya
M
Inoue
Kiyoharu
K
D000328:Adult; D002819:Chorea / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D017696:Myopathies, Nemaline / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D009431:Neural Conduction / Q000502:physiology