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Association of Charcot-Marie-Tooth and Friedreich diseases in a family

Four brothers with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease are studied clinically and genetically. By comparing the symptomatology, the mixed clinical forms within the great group of heredodegenerative diseases are enfazised, with special attention to the intermediate forms between Charcot-MarieTooth and Friedreich diseases. In the present cases there were signs of Charcot-Marie-Tooth's peroneal muscular atrophy and Friedreich's spinocerebelar degeneration. By the genetic study a cromosomal breakage, an unusual phenomenon in Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, was observed.


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