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Report of a Case

Donald C. Aberfeld, MD; Tatsuji Namba, MD

Arch Neurol. 1969;20(3):253-256.

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KUGELBERG-WELANDER disease is the juvenile form of spinal muscular atrophy. It was believed until recently that with the occasional exception of the sternocleidomastoid, the muscles inervated by the cranial nerves were not affected in the course of this disease.^1,2 Tsukagoshi et al^3,4 were the first to stress the occurrence of signs of bulbar palsy in patients with Kugelberg-Welander disease. This was subsequently confirmed by Gross⁵ and Amick et al.⁶ Involvement of the bulbar muscles has also been reported by Kaeser⁷ and Fenichel et al⁸ in patients with the scapuloperoneal and facioscapulohumeral forms of the disease. Involvement of the external eye muscles in Kugelberg-Welander disease has been mentioned before but has received little attention (case 7 of Wohlfahrt et al⁹ and case V/21 of Kaeser⁷). The patient to be described in this report had all the features of Kugelberg-Welander disease with evidence . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Brooklyn, NY

From the Neurology Division and Department of Medicine, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Sept 9, 1967; accepted Oct 27.

Reprint requests to 4802 Tenth Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11219 (Dr. Aberfeld).

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