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A Case of Hereditary Motor and Sensory Neuropathy Type III
Su Hyun Cho, Soo-Jin Kim, Young-Hoon Kim, Yun Tae Kim, Yoon-Kyung Lee, Dong-Un Kim, Seung-Hoon Han, Seung-Yun Chung, In-Goo Lee, Kyung-Tai Whang, Je Geun Chi
Clin Exp Pediatr. 2001;44(9):1057-1061.   Published online September 15, 2001
Hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy type III, which is also known as Dejerine-Sottas disease, is a severe demyelinating polyneuropathy which presents from birth or infancy, and is sometimes presented as a hypotonic or floppy infant. The disease is inherited autosomal recessively and includes clinical findings of generalized muscle weakness and atrophy, with the greatest severity in distal limb muscles, areflexia, and sensory loss. The...