Proximal Myotonic Myopathy: Clinical Features of a Multisystem Disorder Similar to Myotonic Dystrophy

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 25-31

  Ricker, Kenneth ^a   Reiners, Karlheinz ^a   Schneider, Christiane ^a   Koch, Manuela ^b   Speich, Norbert ^b   Lehmann Horn, Frank ^c   Pongratz, Dieter ^d   Moxley, Richard ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^d Department of Neurology Friedrich Baur Stiftung ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; DNA; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; TRINUCLEOTIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DNA DETERMINATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYALGIA; MYOPATHY; MYOTONIA; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MUSCULAR DISEASES; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0028837404     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.1995.00540250029009     Document Type: Article

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