Hereditary sensory neuropathy, type II: clinical, electrophysiologic, histologic, and biochemical studies of a Quebec kinship

M Ohta, RD Ellefson, EH Lambert… - Archives of neurology, 1973 - jamanetwork.com
Members of a kinship with recessive hereditary sensory neuropathy (HSN-type II) and a
person from another kinship with the dominant hereditary variety (HSN-type I) were
investigated with quantitative studies of cutaneous touch-pressure, temperature
discrimination, and pricking pain sensations, in vitro study of compound action potential and
histologic studies of sural nerve biopsy specimens, and analysis of lipids of open liver
biopsy specimens. In contrast to the type I disorder, the type II disorder is already present at …