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Short-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency: a cause of ophthalmoplegia and multicore myopathy.
Neurology - 15 Jan 1999
Tein I, Haslam R H, Rhead W J, Bennett M J, Becker L E, Vockley J
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OBJECTIVE: To determine an underlying genetic defect within the differential diagnosis of congenital multicore myopathy. BACKGROUND: A 13.5-year-old girl presented with congenital-onset facial and neck weakness, slowly progressive severe limb girdle and axial myopathy, respiratory weakness, cardiomyopathy, progressive joint contractures, lumbar lordosis, progressive external ophthalmoplegia with ptosis, and...
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