神经性进行性肌萎缩症又名腓骨肌萎缩症(Peroneal Muscular Atrophy)或Charcot-Marie-Tooth氏症。首由Charcot-Marie及Tooth等氏(1886年)分别描述。Hoffmann氏(1889年,1891年)也报导过本病,并采用了“神经性肌萎缩症”一称。England及Denny-Browu氏等(1952年)认为此病起自脊神经后根,并称之为“遗传性根性神经病”(hereditary radicularneuropathy)近年来,由于病理解剖学上的发现,认为此病原发于脊髓前角细胞及脊神经节细胞,因此,在文献中,有人(如Laubenthal 1953, Refsum 1958)名之为“脊髓神经元性肌萎缩” (Neurospinal muscular atrophia), 国内陈氏等 Neuropathic progressive amyotrophy Aka Peroneal Muscular Atrophy or Charcot-Marie-Tooth’s syndrome. First described by Charcot-Marie and Tooth et al. (1886). Hoffmann’s (1889, 1891) also reported the disease, and used a “neuromuscular dystrophy,” said a. England and Denny-Browu et al. (1952) considered the disease to originate from the dorsal root of the dorsal root nerve and called it “hereditary radicularneuropathy”. In recent years, due to pathological anatomy, Originating in the spinal cord anterior horn cells and spinal ganglion cells, therefore, in the literature, some people (such as Laubenthal 1953, Refsum 1958) called the “spinal neurons muscle atrophia” (Neurospinal muscular atrophia), the domestic Chen et al