Extraocular muscle hypertrophy in myotonia congenita

Journal of AAPOS

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 294-296

  Wakeman, Bradley ^a   Babu, Deepti ^a   Tarleton, Jack ^b   MacDonald, Ian M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Fullerton Genetics Center   (United States)

^c NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE ION; ION CHANNEL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLCN1 GENE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONVERGENT STRABISMUS; DYSMETRIA; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY; MUSCLE RELAXATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBIT; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; THOMSEN DISEASE; TRANSVERSE TUBULAR SYSTEM;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOTONIA CONGENITA; OCULAR MOTILITY DISORDERS; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES;

EID: 45549087122     PISSN: 10918531     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaapos.2007.12.002     Document Type: Article

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