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ArticleAnnals of Indian Academy of Neurology

Unilateral Limb Thinning -Thinking Out of the Box.

Chandramouleeswaran Venkatraman, Shubha Subramanian, Daniel Sweetson Abraham, Kannan Vellaichamy

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Article in Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Chandramouleeswaran VenkatramanInstitute of Neurology, Madras Medical College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Shubha SubramanianInstitute of Neurology, Madras Medical College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Daniel Sweetson AbrahamInstitute of Neurology, Madras Medical College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Kannan VellaichamyInstitute of Neurology, Madras Medical College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Madras Medical College · IN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We report an unusual presentation in a 9-year-old girl with unilateral circumferential thinning of the entire right upper limb without any other neurological deficit, with normal nerve conduction and electromyography initially thought of as a neurodegenerative disorder based on clinical presentation. Magnetic resonance imaging of the upper limb showed partial lipoatrophy with normal glucose metabolism and lipid profile and negativity for HIV and autoimmune disease (panniculitis) with no family history of similar disorder. Remember to think out of box before labeling neurodegenerative disease.

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Lipoatrophymagnetic resonance imaging muscleneurological deficitunilateral circumferential thinning

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PMID29720803
PMCPMC5909151
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