Congenital myopathies: The current status.

Abstract excerpt

Within the history of neuromuscular diseases (NMD), congenital myopathies (CM) represent a relatively new category introduced in the mid-nineteen hundreds upon advent and subsequent application of enzyme histochemistry and electron microscopy by establishing the three major CM, central core disease, nemaline myopathy, and centronuclear myopathy which later pluralized each when the molecular era began at the end...

Topics

• Biopsy
• Histocytochemistry
• Humans
• Microscopy, Electron
• Muscular Diseases
• Mutation