Nonvacuolar myopathy in a large family with both late adult onset distal myopathy and severe proximal muscular dystrophy.

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Late adult onset distal myopathies usually show vacuolar degeneration as a characteristic feature in muscle pathology. In this study vacuolar degeneration was not present in 12 patients with late adult onset distal myopathy. All patients were members of a large kindred, with 26 patients showing this new form of distal leg myopathy. Additionally, a severely disabling proximal muscular dystrophy appeared in eight...

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