Congenital fiber type disproportion with fatal outcome: a case report.
A child with congenital fiber type disproportion without structural changes in muscle fibres is reported. Although this pattern suggests a favorable prognosis, the clinical worsening followed by death at the age of 17 months shows that there is as yet no predictor for a benign course for this myopathy.
D004576:Electromyography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D009135:Muscular Diseases / Q000151:congenital* / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology