Preferential distal muscle involvement in case of oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy with (GCG) 13 expansion

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 560-563

  Nakashima, Dainari ^a   Nakajima, Hideto ^a   Ishida, Shimon ^b   Sugino, Masakazu ^a   Kimura, Fumiharu ^a   Hanafusa, Toshiaki ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b Hirakata City Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Distal muscle atrophy; Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy; Poly (A) binding protein 2 gene

Indexed keywords

POLYADENYLIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; DYSPHAGIA; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; GENE MUTATION; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; OCULOPHARYNGEAL MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PTOSIS; SEMITENDINOUS MUSCLE; SOLEUS MUSCLE;

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, OCULOPHARYNGEAL; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; POLY(A)-BINDING PROTEIN II; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION;

EID: 0347362731     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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