Proximal myotonic myopathy: A new dominant disorder with myotonia, muscle weakness, and cataracts

Neurology

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 1994, Pages 1448-1452

  Ricker, K ^a   Koch, M C ^b   Lehmann Horn, F ^c   Pongratz, D ^d   Otto, M ^b   Heine, R ^c   Moxley, Richard T ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^d Department of Neurology the Friedrich Baur Stiftung ^*  (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CATARACT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENETIC LINKAGE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MYOPATHY; MYOTONIA; PEDIGREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNDROME;

ADULT; AGED; CATARACT; DNA; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULAR DISEASES; MYOTONIA; PEDIGREE;

EID: 0027982349     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.44.8.1448     Document Type: Article

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