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Motor conduction block and high titres of anti-GM1 ganglioside antibodies: pathological evidence of a motor neuropathy in a patient with lower motor neuron syndrome.
  1. D Adams,
  2. T Kuntzer,
  3. A J Steck,
  4. A Lobrinus,
  5. R C Janzer,
  6. F Regli
  1. Centre Hospitalier, Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland.

    Abstract

    A patient with a progressive lower motor neuron syndrome and neurophysiological evidence of motor axon loss, multifocal proximal motor nerve conduction block, and high titres of anti-ganglioside GM1 antibodies. Neuropathological findings included a predominantly proximal motor radiculoneuropathy with multifocal IgG and IgM deposits on nerve fibres associated with a loss of spinal motor neurons. These findings support an autoimmune origin of this lower motor neuron syndrome with retrograde degeneration of spinal motor neurons and severe neurogenic muscular atrophy.

    https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.56.9.982

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