a rare case of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy and myasthenia gravis.
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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.
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A rare case of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy and myasthenia gravis
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 myastheni...
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iranian journal of neurologyجلد ۱۱، شماره ۱، صفحات ۲۸-۲۹
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