title: Clinico-morphological correlative aspects in progressive muscular dystrophy.
abstract: The author's 15-year experience in the investigation of progressive muscular dystrophy (PMD) is presented. Clinical and paraclinical (biochemical, electromyographical and morphohistochemical) parameters were estimated and correlated in patients with facioscapulohumeral (FSH), Duchenne (D) and limb-girdle (LG) types of muscular dystrophy. The value of each kind of investigation was also estimated in the establishment of the anatomoclinical diagnosis of a degenerative muscular affection.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001706:Biopsy; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004796:Clinical Enzyme Tests; D003401:Creatine / Q000652:urine; D004573:Electrolytes / Q000097:blood; D004576:Electromyography; D005260:Female; D006651:Histocytochemistry; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009132:Muscles / Q000473:pathology; D009136:Muscular Dystrophies / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology
chemical_list: D004573:Electrolytes; D003401:Creatine