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8C70.5 category

Scapuloperoneal muscular dystrophy

Definition

Scapuloperoneal muscular dystrophies are a group of genetically heterogeneous myopathies characterised by progressive weakness and wasting of scapular and anterior leg muscles. Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy is a classic scapuloperoneal muscular dystrophy associated with early contractures and cardiac arrhythmia, but other muscle disorders can also present with a scapuloperoneal phenotype.

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Also indexed as

Erb muscular dystrophyErb pseudohypertrophic muscular dystrophyScapuloperoneal muscular dystrophybenign scapuloperoneal muscular dystrophy with early contracturesscapuloperoneal dystrophyscapuloperoneal muscular dystrophy with early contracturesscapuloperoneal syndrome

Nearby in Muscular dystrophy