Early-onset myopathy with tubular aggregates.
We report a 14-year-old girl with early onset of slowly progressive muscular weakness and atrophy. There was no family history of neuromuscular disease. A persistent increase of serum creatine kinase was found. Muscle biopsy specimens showed type 1 fiber predominance and tubular aggregates in almost every fiber. The clinical findings and pathology suggest that the disease represents one variant in a group of rare myopathies with different patterns of inheritance, characterized by slowly progressive muscle weakness and tubular aggregates.
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Department of Pediatrics, Göteborg University, East Hospital, Sweden.
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D000293:Adolescent; D017668:Age of Onset; D003402:Creatine Kinase / Q000097:blood; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007527:Isoenzymes; D018657:Muscle Fibers, Slow-Twitch / Q000473:pathology*; D018908:Muscle Weakness / Q000201:enzymology / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology*; D009133:Muscular Atrophy / Q000201:enzymology / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology*; D012519:Sarcoplasmic Reticulum / Q000473:pathology*
D007527:Isoenzymes; D003402:Creatine Kinase