July 2003: 62-Year-old female with progressive muscular weakness

Brain Pathology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 109-110

  Bornemann, Antje ^a   Bohl, Jürgen ^b   Schneider, Hans Michael ^c   Goebel, Hans H ^b   Schmidt, Peter F ^d   Gherardi, Romain K ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c St Vincentius Hospital   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^e HENRI MONDOR HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DELTOID MUSCLE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MACROPHAGIC MYOFASCIITIS; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE DISEASE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS;

EID: 1042288278     PISSN: 10156305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-3639.2004.tb00504.x     Document Type: Article

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