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Congenital muscular dystrophy with rigid spine syndrome: a clinical, pathological, radiological, and genetic study.
Annals of neurology - 1 Feb 2000
Flanigan K M, Kerr L, Bromberg M B, Leonard C, Tsuruda J, Zhang P, Gonzalez-Gomez I, Cohn R, Campbell K P, Leppert M
Abstract excerpt
Rigid spine syndrome is a term first proposed by Dubowitz to describe a subset of patients affected by myopathy with early spinal contractures as a prominent feature. While spinal rigidity is a nonspecific feature, found in Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy and in some congenital myopathies, it is also a prominent feature in a group of patients with merosin-positive congenital muscular dystrophy, where it is...
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