Sporadic adult-onset distal myopathy with rimmed vacuoles, 15-18 nm tubulofilaments and extensive rod formation

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 81-84

  Sieb, Jörn P ^a   VonOertzen, Joachim ^a   Tolksdorf, Karen ^a   Dörfler, Petra ^a   Kappes Horn, Karin ^a   Jerusalem, Felix ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

inclusion body myositis; Miyoshi myopathy; nemaline bodies; Nonaka myopathy; Welander myopathy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL VACUOLE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MYOPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; INCLUSION BODIES; MALE; MYOPATHIES, NEMALINE; PERIODICITY; VACUOLES;

EID: 0031057888     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-510X(96)00264-X     Document Type: Article

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