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We report two patients of Afro-Caribbean origin with an ataxic neuropathy combined with visual loss and deafness. In previous reports of a similar syndrome most patients have been malnourished and have had mucocutaneous lesions, features which were absent in our patients.
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Cockerell, O.C., Ormerod, I.E.C. Strachan's syndrome: variation on a theme. J Neurol 240, 315–318 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00838170
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