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2253416

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
8
pubmed:dateCreated
1991-1-24
pubmed:abstractText
We analysed the patterns of skeletal muscular involvement in 18 patients with bulbar-spinal muscular atrophy (BSMA) of the Kennedy-Alter-Sung type by using the computed tomographic scanner. Fatty infiltrations were prominent in various skeletal muscles of extremities and trunk, and its degree was severe in the following numerical orders; the gluteal muscles, flexors of the thighs, flexors of the lower extremities, extensors and the adductors of the thighs, the paraspinal muscles, and extensors of the lower extremities. There was statistically significant correlation between fatty infiltrations in flexors of the lower extremities and duration of illness. And were noted findings that the skeletal muscle lesion progressed with the preserved fasciae and sectional areas, fatty infiltrations in the lower extremities were more conspicuous in flexors than in extensors, and compensatory hypertrophic muscles in the thigh were apparent in 50% of cases. In conclusions, the computed tomographic analyses on skeletal muscle of BSMA may be useful to detect distributions, progression of the muscle lesion, in addition to a profile of the myopathic alterations of the disease.
pubmed:language
jpn
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0009-918X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
30
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
828-34
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1990
pubmed:articleTitle
[Computed tomographic analyses on skeletal muscles in bulbar spinal muscular atrophy].
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Neurology, Fujita Gakuen Health University, School of Medicine.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't