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Value of muscle magnetic resonance imaging in the differential diagnosis of muscular dystrophies related to the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex.
Orphanet journal of rare diseases - 12 Nov 2019
Xie Zhiying, Xie Zhihao, Yu Meng, Zheng Yiming, Sun Chengyue, Liu Yilin, Ling Chen, Zhu Ying, Zhang Wei, Xiao Jiangxi, Wang Zhaoxia, Yuan Yun
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Dystrophin-glycoprotein complex (DGC)-related muscular dystrophies may present similar clinical and pathological features as well as undetectable mutations thus being sometimes difficult to distinguish. We investigated the value of muscle magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the differential diagnosis of DGC-related muscular dystrophies and reported the largest series of Chinese patients with...
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