Mitochondrial abnormalities in oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy

• Main Authors: Wong, K.T., Dick, D., Anderson, J.E.R.
• Format: Article
• Published: Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya 1996
• Subjects: R Medicine
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/24487/; https://jummec.um.edu.my/issue/view/661/Vol.1%2C%20No.2%2C%201996

This report describes a 56-yr-old man with a dominantly inherited disorder affecting four generations and characterized by bilateral ptosis and dysphagia. Muscle biopsy showed only minor light microscopic abnormalities but electron microscopy revealed fibres containing paracrystalline mitochondrial...