Clinical and molecular pathological features of severe childhood autosomal recessive muscular dystrophy in Saudi Arabia

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 262-270

  Salih, M A M ^a   Mahdi, A H ^a   Al Rikabi, A C ^a   Al Bunyan, M ^a   Roberds, S L ^b   Anderson, R D ^b   Campbell, K P ^b  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHALIN; CREATINE KINASE; DYSTROPHIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSANGUINITY; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; MALE; MOBILIZATION; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; OBSERVATION; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 0029863705     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.1996.tb15089.x     Document Type: Article

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