title: Deformed erythrocytes in muscular dystrophies.
abstract: Because of previous reports of a possible correlation between echinocytogenesis and muscular dystrophies, we investigated the time-dependent development of echinocytes in the blood of normal subjects, patients, and healthy carries of Duchenne dystrophy. There was a quantitatively significant increase of echinocytes in patients and carriers.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004906:Erythrocyte Count; D004913:Erythrocytes, Abnormal; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009136:Muscular Dystrophies / Q000097:blood*