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Elderly onset of weakness in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy. Case Rep Neurol Med 2012;2012:726984

Date

10/02/2012

Pubmed ID

23024867

Pubmed Central ID

PMC3457597

DOI

10.1155/2012/726984

Abstract

A 77-year-old male is presented. He had onset of proximal weakness 10 years earlier. His course was slowly progressive. Despite having phenotypic features of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSH), genetic testing for this was delayed because of his age of onset, lack of family history, and benign appearing muscle biopsy. This case is one of the oldest onset of weakness in genetically confirmed FSH and highlights the recognized expansion in phenotype that has occurred since the advent of genetic testing.

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Author

Dominic B. Fee MD Vice Chair, Professor in the Neurology department at Medical College of Wisconsin