Characteristic clinical findings in some neurogenic myopathies and in some myogenic myopathies causing muscular weakness, hypotonia and atrophy in infancy and early childhood
Gamstorp, I.
Birth Defects Original Article Series 7(2): 72-81
1971
ISSN/ISBN: 0547-6844 PMID: 5173129 Document Number: 44146
Some conditions causing neurogenic or myogenic myopathy are reviewed and illustrated by cases of 1) perinatal cervical cord injury; 2) various types of progressive spinal muscular atrophy and 3) congenital muscular dystrophy, Duchenne-like type of muscular dystrophy, limb-girdle type of muscular dystrophy. All the cases of muscular dystrophy described here occurred in girls.