Inherited peripheral neuropathies

MA Saporta, ME Shy - Neurologic clinics, 2013 - neurologic.theclinics.com
First described at the end of the nineteenth century by French neurologists Jean Martin
Charcot and Pierre Marie and British neurologist Howard Henry Tooth, Charcot-Marie-Tooth
(CMT) disease is now identified as the most common inherited neurologic condition,
affecting approximately 1 in 2500 people. 1 CMT is frequently the final diagnosis of patients
with previously unidentified (idiopathic or cryptogenic) peripheral neuropathies, 2
underscoring the need for better awareness and strategies to help general neurologists …