Three familial cases presenting with an immobile spine. Rigid spine or Emery-Dreifuss syndrome?

Clinical Genetics

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 229-231

  Spranger, M ^a,d   Spranger, S ^a   Ziegan, J ^b   Lossner J ^c   Meinck, H M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Park Hospital Leipzig   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emery Dreifuss muscular dystrophy; Emery Dreifuss syndrome; Hauptmann Thannhauser syndrome; Rigid spine syndrome; Rigid spine

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CONTRACTURE; ELBOW; EMERY DREIFUSS MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPINE DISEASE;

EID: 0030443802     PISSN: 00099163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.1996.tb02632.x     Document Type: Article

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