A case of spinal muscular atrophy with marked calf hypertrophy and adolescent onset

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 170-173

  Hattori, Noriaki ^a,b   Nishigaki, Toshinori ^c   Inui, Koji ^c   Kaido, Misako ^c   Nishimura, Tomoya ^b   Hazama, Takanori ^b   Nakata, Toshio ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA GENERAL MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adolescent onset; Hypertrophic calves; Kugelberg Welander disease; Spinal muscular atrophy; Survival motor neuron (SMN) gene

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; KUGELBERG WELANDER DISEASE; MALE; MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY; ONSET AGE; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; GENE DELETION; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; LEG; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 0034076344     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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