The recovery cycle of excitability assessed by a conventional electrodiagnostic machine: A study in healthy volunteers and in Charcot-Marie-Tooth 1A patients.

Objective: To validate the 'paired pulses' technique with a conventional electrodiagnostic machine (CEM) for studying the axonal excitability recovery cycle (ERC).

Methods: Paired pulses, with a variable inter-stimulus interval, were delivered at the wrist along the median nerve. The CEM repeatability was verified in a group of 15 healthy volunteers (test/retest analysis).

Breast cancer in a male-to-female transsexual patient with a BRCA2 mutation.

Breast cancer is rare in male patients. Certain predisposing factors, be they genetic (e.g.