PRIMARY MYOPATHIES
- 1 December 1936
- journal article
- review article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Neurology & Psychiatry
- Vol. 36 (6) , 1294-1316
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archneurpsyc.1936.02260120141009
Abstract
Recent favorable therapeutic reports1 have revived interest in the muscular dystrophies. A brief historical review, however, revealed that this condition has been recognized at least for over a century. Bell2 in 1830 first described cases in which the disease resembled pseudohypertrophic muscular dystrophy; Meryon,3 Duchenne,4 Erb5 and Landouzy and Dejerine6 greatly advanced knowledge of the subject through clinical and postmortem observations. It remained for Erb,7 however, to give the first clear conception and differentiation of the myopathies. Shortly thereafter, Batten8 suggested the following classification, which I have employed in this study: To this list Spiller9 would have added the true hypertrophic type. These forms have the common characteristics of being familial or hereditary and usuallyKeywords
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- Der kardio-intestinale Symptomenkomplex bei der progressiven MuskeldystrophieEuropean Journal of Pediatrics, 1929