Muscle Fiber-Type Disproportion: Report of a Family with Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Members

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 1978, Pages 823-826

  Eisler, Toomas ^a,b   Wilson, Jacob H ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASE REPORT; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HEREDITY; MUSCLE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE CELL; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CREATINE KINASE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MUSCLES; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 0018071856     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.1978.00500360047009     Document Type: Article

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