MYOTONIA ATROPHICA WITH CATARACT
- 1 October 1933
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Neurology & Psychiatry
- Vol. 30 (4) , 810-823
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archneurpsyc.1933.02240160122006
Abstract
In 1876, Thomsen1wrote his famous dissertation on congenital myotonia, tracing the condition throughout three generations of his own family. He gave credit for the original description of this malady to Bell.2In 1886, Erb3elaborated the concept of myotonia. Following the issuance of Erb's monograph there appeared reports of conditions that were considered at first to be atypical myotonia congenita. The earliest of these reports was that of Délèage,4in 1890. Good descriptions of such cases were given by Pelizaeus,5in 1897, and by Hoffmann,6in 1900. Rossolimo,7in 1902, gave the new clinical syndrome the name ofmyotonie atrophique(myotonia atrophica), although he considered the atrophy to have complicated a preexisting myotonia congenita. In 1909 the subject was clarified, and the clinical entity of myotonia atrophica emerged through the independent and almost simultaneous publications of Batten and Gibb8and Steinert.Keywords
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