1. Profound muscle weakness associated with axis cylinder ballooning
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Nancy S. Peress and Byung-Hoon Kim
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Male ,Ballooning ,Pathology and Forensic Medicine ,White matter ,Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience ,Humans ,Medicine ,Peripheral Nerves ,Pathological ,business.industry ,Muscle weakness ,Axonal swelling ,Anatomy ,Axis cylinder ,Middle Aged ,Axons ,Mitochondria ,Microscopy, Electron ,Muscular Atrophy ,Hallervorden-Spatz disease ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,nervous system ,Autopsy ,Neurology (clinical) ,medicine.symptom ,business ,Progressive muscular weakness - Abstract
Multifocal central white matter axonal swelling characterized electron microscopically by focal axonal mitochondrial and membraneous body enrichment occurred in a 52 year old man who presented with the chief complaint of severe progressive muscular weakness accompanied by disorientation. The clinical and pathological findings in this patient appear unique and are presented in order to broaden our concepts of axis cylinder pathology.
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- 1974
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