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The autonomic nervous system is studied by electron microscopy for the first time in two siblings born of North African consanguineous parents and affected by infantile neuroaxonal dystrophy. The changes already reported in dystrophic axons of the central and peripheral nervous system, are seen in the myenteric plexus of rectum mucosa. The authors stress the diffuse involvement of the nervous tissue in this degenerative disorder of still unknown nature.
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Berard-Badier, M., Toga, M., Gambarelli, D. et al. Infantile neuroaxonal dystrophy or Seitelberger's disease. Acta Neuropathol 28, 261–267 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00719031
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