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Pearls & Oy-sters: HyperCKemia with limb-girdle weakness: Think beyond myopathies
- Source :
- Neurology. 83:e209-e212
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2014.
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Abstract
- X-linked spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA, Kennedy disease) should be considered in the differential diagnosis of male patients with significant elevation of creatine kinase (CK), limb-girdle weakness, and hyporeflexia/areflexia.
- Subjects :
- Male
Weakness
Bulbo-Spinal Atrophy, X-Linked
Significant elevation
Diagnosis, Differential
Muscular Diseases
Humans
Medicine
Muscle, Skeletal
Creatine Kinase
Aged
Muscle Weakness
Reflex, Abnormal
biology
business.industry
Hyporeflexia
Anatomy
medicine.disease
body regions
Limb girdle weakness
Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy
Male patient
biology.protein
Creatine kinase
Neurology (clinical)
Differential diagnosis
medicine.symptom
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1526632X and 00283878
- Volume :
- 83
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Neurology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4911333f2f0a47e83d4dc8e763684b63