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Chronic Human Colchicine Neuropathy and Myopathy
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Chronic Human Colchicine Neuropathy and Myopathy

Jack E Riggs, Sydney S Schochet, Ludwig Gutmann, Thomas W Crosby and Anthony G DiBartolomeo
Archives of neurology (Chicago), Vol.43(5), pp.521-523
05/01/1986
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.1986.00520050091033
PMID: 3964122

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Abstract

A 43-year-old woman who indiscriminately took colchicine for five years developed a progressive multisystem syndrome that included severe axonal neuropathy and a pathologically striking myopathy. The neuropathy and myopathy were similar to experimental animal colchicine-induced neuromuscular toxicity.

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