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Adult-onset nemaline myopathy: Another cause of dropped head
C Lomen-Hoerth1, M L Simmons, S J Dearmond
1Department of Neurology, University of California School of Medicine, 505 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, California 94143-0114, USA.
Muscle & Nerve
|July 27, 1999
Abstract:
A 59-year-old man with severe neck extensor weakness had findings diagnostic of nemaline myopathy on muscle biopsy. Review of the literature shows that dropped head occurs in nearly half of the patients with adult-onset nemaline myopathy. Other leading causes of dropped head syndrome are amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, myasthenia gravis, and isolated neck extensor myopathy.