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Whole-body high-field MRI shows no skeletal muscle degeneration in young patients with recessive myotonia congenita.
Acta neurologica Scandinavica - 1 Feb 2010
Kornblum C, Lutterbey G G, Czermin B, Reimann J, von Kleist-Retzow J-C, Jurkat-Rott K, Wattjes M P
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BACKGROUND: Muscle magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the most sensitive method in the detection of dystrophic and non-dystrophic abnormalities within striated muscles. We hypothesized that in severe myotonia congenita type Becker muscle stiffness, prolonged transient weakness and muscle hypertr...
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