[The concept of neurogenic intermittent claudication. A rare form of intermittent limping in neurologic system disease].

Two cases of neural muscular atrophy of the Charcot-Marie-Tooth-Hoffmann type with strain-dependent pain in the leg similar to intermittent claudication are reported. While the pathogenesis of a neurogenic intermittent claudication appears to be reasonably explained by a pathological narrowness of the lumbar spinal duct, this question must remain open in the cases of neurospinal systemic disease described.