Pattern of skeletal muscle involvement in primary dysferlinopathies: A whole-body 3.0-T magnetic resonance imaging study

Acta Neurologica Scandinavica

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 111-118

  Kesper, K ^a   Kornblum, C ^a   Reimann, J ^a   Lutterbey, G ^a   Schroder R ^b   Wattjes, M P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dysferlin; Dysferlinopathies; High field magnetic resonance imaging; Limb girdle muscular dystrophy type 2B; Miyoshi myopathy

Indexed keywords

DYSFERLIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GLUTEUS MAXIMUS MUSCLE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LOWER LEG; MALE; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; MYOPATHY; PELVIS; PRIMARY DYSFERLINOPATHY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SHOULDER GIRDLE; THIGH; TRUNK; WHOLE BODY MRI;

ADULT; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DISTAL MYOPATHIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES, LIMB-GIRDLE; MUTATION; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 67651232854     PISSN: 00016314     EISSN: 16000404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0404.2008.01129.x     Document Type: Article

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