Limb girdle muscular dystrophy type 2B masquerading as inflammatory myopathy: case report

Limb girdle muscular dystrophy type 2B is a rare subtype of muscular dystrophy, the predominant feature of which is muscle weakness. The disease is caused by an autosomal recessively inherited reduction/absence of muscle dysferlin due to a mutation in dysferlin gene at 2p12-14. We report a 10 year o...

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Main Authors: Jethwa, Hannah, Jacques, Thomas S, Gunny, Roxanna, Wedderburn, Lucy R, Pilkington, Clarissa, Manzur, Adnan Y
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2013
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Case Report
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3652784/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23641709
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1546-0096-11-19
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