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Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease axonal type 2CC

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A Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2 that has_material_basis_in heterozygous mutation in the NEFH gene on chromosome 22q12.

Signs and symptoms

  • Lower limb muscle weakness
  • EMG: neuropathic changes
  • Babinski sign
  • Lower limb amyotrophy
  • Elevated circulating creatine kinase activity
  • Upper limb amyotrophy
  • Upper limb muscle weakness
  • Muscle fiber splitting
  • Pyloric stenosis
  • Myopathy

Also known as: CMT2CC; Charcot-Marie-Tooth neuropathy type 2CC