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Austin R Thompson1, Brooke Beckett2, Erik R Ensrud1

  • 1Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation Oregon Health & Science University Portland Oregon.

Clinical Case Reports
|January 31, 2020
PubMed

This report describes the clinical presentation of a female patient diagnosed with crural MMA. Careful clinical correlation is necessary to distinguish crural MMA from other motor neuron diseases. When crural MMA is diagnosed, treatment options aim to alleviate symptoms.

Keywords:
cruralcrural monomelic amyotrophyelectromyographymagnetic resonance imagingmonomelic amyotrophyneurogenic muscular atrophy

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