Menkes Disease with ‘Ragged Red’ Fibers

J Gordon Millichap

doi:10.15844/pedneurbriefs-3-1-7

Menkes Disease with ‘Ragged Red’ Fibers

Pediatric Neurology Briefs

Volume 3 (1989): Issue 1

By: J Gordon Millichap

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|Jan 1989

Abstract

Subsarcolemmal aggregates of mitochondria (‘ragged red’ fibers) in skeletal muscle were found at autopsy in a 30-month-old male infant with Menkes kinky-hair disease reported from the New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical Center, New York.

References

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Menkes JH Alter M Steigleder GK Weakley DR Sung JH A sex-linked recessive disorder with retardation of growth, peculiar hair, and focal cerebral and cerebellar degeneration Pediatrics 1962 May 29 764 779 14472668
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Menkes JH Textbook of Child Neurology 3rd 1985 Philadelphia Lea & Febger PMC1001563
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15844/pedneurbriefs-3-1-7 | Journal eISSN: 2166-6482

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Language: English

Page range: 5 - 6

Published on: Jan 1, 1989

Published by: Pediatric Neurology Briefs Publishers

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Keywords:

Skeletal Muscle,

Vertical Nystagmus,

Plasma Copper

© 1989 J Gordon Millichap, published by Pediatric Neurology Briefs Publishers
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Volume 3 (1989): Issue 1