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ArticleActa myologica : myopathies and cardiomyopathies : official journal of the Mediterranean Society of Myology2019

Facio-scapulo-humeral muscular dystrophy with early joint contractures and rigid spine.

Constantinos Papadopoulos, Vasiliki Zouvelou, George Konstantinos Papadimas

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Article in Acta myologica : myopathies and cardiomyopathies : official journal of the Mediterranean Society of Myology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Constantinos Papadopoulos1 Department of Neurology, Eginition Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
Vasiliki Zouvelou1 Department of Neurology, Eginition Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
George Konstantinos Papadimas1 Department of Neurology, Eginition Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
Eginition Hospital · GR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Early joint contractures in childhood or adolescence irrespective of muscle weakness are usually found in Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy and collagen-VI related diseases and only rarely in the early stages of other progressive muscular dystrophies. We report a patient presenting severe elbow contractures and a rigid-spine since his early childhood without any evident muscle weakness, who was diagnosed with facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy later in life. This case is interesting since there has been no report, to date, of patients with a phenotype resembling facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy also in association with early and prominent elbow contractures and spinal rigidity, since childhood, resembling Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy. Our case further confirmed the phenotypic variability often observed in carriers of

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AdultBiopsyContractureDiagnosis, DifferentialElbow JointHumansMaleMuscular Dystrophy, FacioscapulohumeralPhenotypeSpinal DiseasesEmery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophyfacioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophyjoint contractures

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PMID31309179
PMCPMC6598404
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