A rare case of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy and myasthenia gravis

Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is a common inherited muscular dystrophy presented clinically with slowly progressive weakness and wasting of facial and limb muscles and rare bulbar muscle involvement. We present herein a 70-year-old man who was a known case of FSHD with complaint of 1...

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Autores principales: Asadollahi, Marjan, Rezaiyan, Bibiseyedeh, Amjadi, Hiva
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3829232/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24250856
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author Asadollahi, Marjan
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description Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is a common inherited muscular dystrophy presented clinically with slowly progressive weakness and wasting of facial and limb muscles and rare bulbar muscle involvement. We present herein a 70-year-old man who was a known case of FSHD with complaint of 15-day history of progressive difficulty in chewing and dysarthria and was found to have myasthenia gravis. Related literatures have been also reviewed.
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spelling pubmed-38292322013-11-18 A rare case of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy and myasthenia gravis Asadollahi, Marjan Rezaiyan, Bibiseyedeh Amjadi, Hiva Iran J Neurol Case Report Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is a common inherited muscular dystrophy presented clinically with slowly progressive weakness and wasting of facial and limb muscles and rare bulbar muscle involvement. We present herein a 70-year-old man who was a known case of FSHD with complaint of 15-day history of progressive difficulty in chewing and dysarthria and was found to have myasthenia gravis. Related literatures have been also reviewed. Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3829232/ /pubmed/24250856 Text en Copyright © 2012 Iranian Neurological Association, and Tehran University of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly.
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A rare case of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy and myasthenia gravis
title A rare case of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy and myasthenia gravis
title_full A rare case of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy and myasthenia gravis
title_fullStr A rare case of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy and myasthenia gravis
title_full_unstemmed A rare case of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy and myasthenia gravis
title_short A rare case of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy and myasthenia gravis
title_sort rare case of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy and myasthenia gravis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3829232/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24250856
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