Background: Hydatid disease is a parasitic infection that occurs primarily in Mediterranean countries. Skeletal and muscular involvement rare feature of hydatid disease, making the diagnosis this condition difficult, especially children. Case presentation: In case report, cyst medial compartment right thigh was presented 9-year-old girl who referred to emergency department with bump pain area. ...

Duchenne’s muscular dystrophy is the most common hereditary neuromuscular disease, which affects all races. Its classical characteristic clinical features being progressive weakness, intellectual impairment and hypertrophy of calves with proliferation connective tissue fibrosis in muscles. As disease inherited as an X-linked recessive trait, thus females not manifesting acting carriers only, se...

Sternocleidomastoid muscle fibrosis has been recognized for centuries, but its pathogenesis and treatment remains controversial. Pseudotumor of infancy is a firm fibrous mass in the sternocleidomastoid muscle appearing at 2 to 3 weeks of age. Congenital muscular torticollis is less common and appears later in life. Pseudotumor and congenital muscular torticollis probably represent different man...

In the present paper, the author desires to report a somewhat atyp­ ical form of progressive muscular dystrophy, rather resembling Erb's infantile type, of extremely benign and �low progress. In the cases examined it has occurred as a hereditary affection now in the fourth generation. The number of individuals disabled thus far has been fourteen. Of the seven living members with the disease, al...

BACKGROUND In 1991, the first world survey of neuromuscular disorders (NMDs) was published in the peer reviewed literature. Since then, diagnostics have been greatly improved through genetic confirmation and consensus on criteria. This prompted us to search the scientific literature since 1990 for the epidemiology of NMDs. OBJECTIVES To study occurrence rates, gender and age distribution. M...

The muscular dystrophies comprise a heterogeneous group of genetic disorders that produce progressive skeletal muscle weakness and wasting. There has been rapid growth and change in our understanding of these disorders in recent years, and advances in basic science are being translated into increasing numbers of clinical trials. This review will discuss therapeutic developments in 3 of the most...

BACKGROUND Some chronic diseases have been associated to an impairment of nutritional status. OBJECTIVE To analyze nutritional status and its relation to dietary intake, disease activity and treatment in rheumatoid arthritis. PATIENTS AND METHODS We have included 93 patients (43 men and 50 women) and 93 age- and sex-matched healthy controls. The assessment of nutritional status included ant...

Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a debilitating disease affecting male cIdldren, presents special considerations for the dentist faced with an oral-surgical problem. When general anesthesia is contraindicated, local anesthesia and a change in technique is indicated. One technique of outpatient surgical management of an odontogenic keratocyst, in a patient with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, is descri...

Skin fibroblasts from patients with familial dysautonomia, Duchenne muscular dystrophy and Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease show normal sensitivity to ionising radiation, as measured by post-irradiation clonal growth. Previous reports of cellular hypersensitivity to ionising radiation and other DNA-damaging agents in familial dysautonomia and Duchenne muscular dystrophy have not been confirmed.

Ths dissociation of gross congestive cardiomyopathy and muscle disease in different members of a family affected with Becker's benign X-linked muscular dystrophy is described. The possibility that cardiomyopathy and muscular dystrophy may be the expressions of the same mutant gene has been suggested.