Intrinsic Laryngeal Muscles in Oculocraniosomatic Syndrome (OCSS). An Autopsy Study

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Journal Arch Otorhinolaryngol

Specialty Otorhinolaryngology

Date 1983 Jan 1

PMID 6847514

Authors

H P Schmitt

H G Lenard

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Abstract

In a 36-year-old woman who died due to an atypical subacute necrotizing inclusion-body encephalitis with herpes virions, typical clinical symptoms of the oculocraniosomatic syndrome of Kearns and Sayre were substantiated. Her still living daughter suffers from the same disorder. The skeletal muscles taken from various parts of the body of the 36-year-old patient displayed the typical features of a sudanophilic myopathy, including abundant 'ragged-red' fibers and a pleoconial mitochondriosis. For the first time in the literature the intrinsic laryngeal muscles were also found to be significantly involved. Their morphological features are delineated and discussed.

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