Tongue atrophy in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy
- 28 August 2001
- journal article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Neurology
- Vol. 57 (4) , 733-735
- https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.57.4.733
Abstract
Involvement of the lingual muscle is considered one of the exclusion criteria of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD). In a series of 151 Japanese patients with 4q35-FSHD, seven patients (4.6%) had tongue atrophy with abnormal MRI findings and typical myogenic patterns of electromyography. All seven patients belong to a group of early-onset FSHD with large gene deletions on chromosome 4q35. Our result suggests that the patients with 4q35-FSHD could have myopathic tongue atrophy.Keywords
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