Book contents
- Neuromuscular Disease: A Case-Based Approach
- Neuromuscular Disease
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface to 2nd Edition
- Part I Evaluation and Treatment of Patients with a Neuromuscular Disorder
- Part II Neuromuscular Cases
- Disorders of the Anterior Horn Cell
- Case 1 Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
- Case 2 Primary Lateral Sclerosis (PLS)
- Case 3 Progressive Muscular Atrophy (PMA)
- Case 4 Segmental Spinal Muscular Atrophy
- Case 5 Spinal and Bulbar Muscular Atrophy (SBMA; Kennedy Disease)
- Case 6 Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) Type 1
- Case 7 Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) Type 3
- Case 8 Postpolio Syndrome (PPS); Poliomyelitis Anterior Acuta, West Nile Virus Poliomyelitis, Acute Flaccid Weakness in Children
- Peripheral Neuropathies
- Disorders of the Neuromuscular Junction
- Myopathies
- Video legends
- Index
- References
Case 3 - Progressive Muscular Atrophy (PMA)
from Disorders of the Anterior Horn Cell
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 November 2024
Book contents
- Neuromuscular Disease: A Case-Based Approach
- Neuromuscular Disease
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface to 2nd Edition
- Part I Evaluation and Treatment of Patients with a Neuromuscular Disorder
- Part II Neuromuscular Cases
- Disorders of the Anterior Horn Cell
- Case 1 Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
- Case 2 Primary Lateral Sclerosis (PLS)
- Case 3 Progressive Muscular Atrophy (PMA)
- Case 4 Segmental Spinal Muscular Atrophy
- Case 5 Spinal and Bulbar Muscular Atrophy (SBMA; Kennedy Disease)
- Case 6 Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) Type 1
- Case 7 Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) Type 3
- Case 8 Postpolio Syndrome (PPS); Poliomyelitis Anterior Acuta, West Nile Virus Poliomyelitis, Acute Flaccid Weakness in Children
- Peripheral Neuropathies
- Disorders of the Neuromuscular Junction
- Myopathies
- Video legends
- Index
- References
Summary
When playing slow passages, a 55-year-old professional accordionist noticed painless cramping of the right finger flexors. Treatment with botulinum toxin for suspected dystonia had no effect. In the following months, cramps also occurred at rest, and he had to give up his profession. He also noted twitches in the limb muscles.
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- Neuromuscular DiseaseA Case-Based Approach, pp. 79 - 81Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024
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