Severe neonatal nemaline myopathy with delayed maturation of muscle

Brain and Development

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 135-138

  Wada, Hiroko ^a   Nishio, Hisahide ^a   Kugo, Masaaki ^b   Waku, Shozo ^b   Ikeda, Kazushige ^b   Takada, Satoshi ^a   Murakami, Ryusuke ^c   Itoh, Hiroshi ^a   Matsuo, Masafumi ^a   Nakamura, Hajime ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Saiseikai Hyogo ken Hospital   (Japan)

^c HYOGO PREFECTURAL AWAJI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fetal muscles; Muscle fiber types; Nemaline myopathy; Severe neonatal form of nemaline myopathy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; DIAPHRAGM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMATURITY; INFANT; INTERCOSTAL MUSCLE; MALE; MUSCLE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE FIBRIL; NEMALINE MYOPATHY; NEWBORN; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SATELLITE CELL;

EID: 0029872233     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0387-7604(95)00131-X     Document Type: Article

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