Article
[Distal myopathies].
Revue neurologique - 1 Feb 2004
Pénisson-Besnier I
Abstract excerpt
Distal myopathies are a heterogeneous group of genetic disorders characterized clinically by progressive muscular weakness and atrophy beginning in the hands or feet, and pathologically by myopathic changes in skeletal muscles. Five distinct distal myopathies are identified, among them four have been recently defined by their gene and causative mutations. They are classified according to age at onset, mode of...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Age of Onset
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Genes, Dominant
- Genes, Recessive
- Humans
- Muscular Atrophy
- Muscular Dystrophies
- Phenotype