title: A rare case of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy and myasthenia gravis.
abstract: Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is a common inherited muscular dystrophy presented clinically with slowly progressive weakness and wasting of facial and limb muscles and rare bulbar muscle involvement. We present herein a 70-year-old man who was a known case of FSHD with complaint of 15-day history of progressive difficulty in chewing and dysarthria and was found to have myasthenia gravis. Related literatures have been also reviewed.
authors.affiliation: Loghman Hospital, Department of Neurology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Marjan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Asadollahi
authors.forename: Bibiseyedeh
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Rezaiyan
authors.forename: Hiva
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Amjadi
keywords: Facioscapulohumeralmuscular Dystrophy; Iran; Myasthenia Gravis; Myopathy