Muscle imaging analogies in a cohort of patients with different clinical phenotypes caused by LMNA gene mutations

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 458-463

  Carboni, Nicola ^a   Mura, Marco ^a   Marrosu, Giovanni ^a   Cocco, Eleonora ^a   Marini, Stefano ^a   Solla, Elisabetta ^a   Mateddu, Anna ^a   Maioli, Maria Antonietta ^a   Piras, Rachele ^a   Mallarini, Giorgio ^a   Mercuro, Giuseppe ^a,b   Porcu, Maurizio ^a,b   Marrosu, Maria Giovanna ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b BROTZU HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Continuum in skeletal muscle involvement; Emery dreifuss musucular dystrophy; Lamins; Limb girdle muscular dystrophy; Lmna gene; Muscle imaging

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; LEG MUSCLE; LMNA GENE; MYOPATHY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLEUS MUSCLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAMIN TYPE A; LIPODYSTROPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES, LIMB-GIRDLE; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, EMERY-DREIFUSS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950239114     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.21514     Document Type: Article

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