- See:
CMT Menu:
- Discussion:
- autosomal dominant inheritance;
- type II is the neuronal form of CMT disease and is seen infrequently;
- onset is delayed until the second or third decade of life;
- sensory and motor nerve-conduction times that are only mildly abnormal,
and a variable inheritance pattern;
- Clinical Manifestations:
- characterized by persistently normal reflexes;
- there is more profound distal lower extremity weakness than encountered
in
Type I;
- characteristic stork leg appearance frequently is seen caused by atrophy
of the distal third or the quadriceps and hamstrings;
- flail foot develops a calcaneovarus (? valgus) deformity;
- fixed bony deformity is better managed by a combination of calcaneal
and metatarsal osteotomies and may require the use of AFO's;
- posterior displacement calcaneal osteotomy is effective in correcting
calcaneocavus deformity of the type II neuropathy;
