Adult-onset nemaline myopathy: A case report and review of the literature

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 121, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1210-1213

  Gyure, Kymberly A ^a   Prayson, Richard A ^a,b   Estes, Melinda L ^a  

^a Amer Assoc of Neuropathologists   (Canada)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; MALE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEMALINE MYOPATHY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ATROPHY; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MYOPATHIES, NEMALINE;

EID: 0031421419     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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