Muscle ultrasound quantifies disease progression over time in infants and young boys with duchenne muscular dystrophy

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 334-338

  Zaidman, Craig M ^a   Malkus, Elizabeth C ^a   Connolly, Anne M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Backscatter; Children; Duchenne muscular dystrophy; Muscle; Myopathy; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

PREDNISOLONE;

ARTICLE; BAYLEY SCALES OF INFANT DEVELOPMENT; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EXON; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE ECHOINTENSITY; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; MYOGRAPHY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE MUSCLE ECHOGRAPHY; ARM; CASE CONTROL STUDY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ARM; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, DUCHENNE; QUADRICEPS MUSCLE;

EID: 84938888522     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.24609     Document Type: Article

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