Sporadic late-onset nemaline myopathy in a woman with multiple myeloma successfully treated with lenalidomide/dexamethasone

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 934-935

  Montagnese, Federica ^a   Portaro, Simona ^a   Musumeci, Olimpia ^a   Migliorato, Alba ^a   Moggio, Maurizio ^b   Fagiolari, Gigliola ^b   Rodolico, Carmelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; DOXORUBICIN; LENALIDOMIDE; VINCRISTINE; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITOR; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; THALIDOMIDE;

ADULT; ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CELL INFILTRATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; HEAD POSITION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEMALINE MYOPATHY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; ONSET AGE; PLASMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITTING; SPORADIC LATE ONSET NEMALINE MYOPATHY; STANDING; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WADDLING GAIT; WALKING DIFFICULTY; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; COMPLICATION; MYOPATHIES, NEMALINE; NECK MUSCLE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; DEXAMETHASONE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; MYOPATHIES, NEMALINE; NECK MUSCLES; THALIDOMIDE;

EID: 84929504405     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.24545     Document Type: Letter

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