Bethlem myopathy: A slowly progressive congenital muscular dystrophy with contractures

Brain

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 649-655

  Jobsis G J ^a   Boers, J M ^a   Barth, P G ^a   De Visser, M ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bethlem myopathy; Contractures; Impairment; Natural course; Neonatal floppiness

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 6;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; BETHLEM MYOPATHY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; FETUS MOVEMENT; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; INFANTILE HYPOTONIA; INVALIDITY; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTURE; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CANES; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUBFOOT; COLLAGEN; CONTRACTURE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FAMILY HEALTH; GENES, DOMINANT; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES; PEDIGREE; WHEELCHAIRS;

EID: 0345196592     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/122.4.649     Document Type: Article

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