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Nemaline MyopathyA Second Case
W. KING ENGEL, MD;
THEODOR WANKO, MD;
GERALD M. FENICHEL, MD
Arch Neurol. 1964;11(1):22-39.
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Introduction
A newly recognized disease of skeletal muscle was discovered recently in a 4-year-old girl.1,2 The child had congenital, apparently nonprogressive, muscular weakness that was more severe proximally. In her biopsied skeletal muscle fibers were abnormal rod-shaped structures, which cytochemically appeared to be altered myofibrillar material. By electron microscopy, the rods were found to be pathologic fibrils with an axial periodicity of 145 A and were, therefore, thought to be related to myosin or one of its components.
A second example of this disease has now been found in a 16-year-old girl. The early clinical and most of the pathological features were identical, indicating that the disease is similar, but the course in later childhood of this second case showed that her condition was slowly progressive.
Methods
The methods for histopathology and histo- and cytochemistry were as described previously.2,1 An additional histochemical method for sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) triad
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Author Affiliations
BETHESDA, MD
From the Medical Neurology Branch (Dr. Engel), and the Ophthalmology Branch (Dr. Wanko), National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness, National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Bethesda, Md.
Footnotes
Submitted for publication Jan 8, 1964; accepted Feb 25.
Dr. Wanko died April 3, 1964.
Present address: Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar St, New Haven, Conn (Dr. Fenichel).
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