Extra-muscle involvement in dystrophinopathies: An electroretinography and evoked potential study

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 146, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 127-132

  Girlanda, Paolo ^a   Quartarone, Angelo ^a   Buceti, Rosaria ^a   Sinicropi, Stefano ^a   Macaione, Vincenzo ^a   Saad, Fawzy A ^b   Messina, Lorenzo ^a   Danieli, Gian Antonio ^c   Ferreri, Giuseppe ^a   Vita, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b KAFRELSHEIKH UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Becker muscular dystrophy; DMD carrier; Duchenne muscular dystrophy; dystrophin; electroretinography; evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

DYSTROPHIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BECKER MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DYSTROPHIN; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; GENE DELETION; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES;

EID: 0031052011     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-510X(96)00292-4     Document Type: Article

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