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A CASE OF PROXIMAL SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY SIMULATING MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY Saburo Otsuki 1 , Akira Terao 1 , Sigeo Yokoyama 1 , Ikuko Shirahige 1 1Dept. of Neuropsychiatry, Okayama Univ., School of Medicine pp.917-923
Published Date 1963/10/1
DOI https://doi.org/10.11477/mf.1406201543
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A 17-year old boy, who showed generalized muscle weakness and atrophy, most pronoun-ced in proximal region. These were spared in the region of the cranial nerves. No other members of the family suffering from neuro-muscular disorders.

When the patient was 3 year old, the parents discovered his difficulty in walking rapidly and in running and climbing steps. The clinical course had been very slowly progressive. The appearance of this patient simulated very much with progressive muscular dystrophy, walking with waddling gait and climbing up himself. The spontaneous fasciculations, how-ever, were found. The patient showed a hypertricosis in four extremities.

Electromyogram and biopsy specimens sho-wed changes typical of lower motor neuron damage. Dystrophic change of muscle fibers and long lasting insertion activity were the unusual findings. The diagnosis of neuro-genic muscular atrophy simulating muscular dystrophy may be adequate for this clinical pictures, but most probable a benign variant of Werdnig-Hof fmann disease.


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