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Case Report

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1974;17(3):244-248. Published online March 31, 1974.

Congenital Muscular Dystrophy.

E Sook Oh¹, Sung Won Park¹, Chong Koo Yun¹, Sang Hyup Kim¹, Chung Bin Lee², E.K Ham²

¹Dept, of pediatrics，College of Medicine，Seoul National University
²Dept, of Pathology，College of Medicine, Seoul National University

Abstract

We described the case of a 7 year and 10 month old child with congenital muscular hypotonia and weakness which was noticed for the first time at 1 month of age. A muscle biopsy revealed changes similar in appearance to those of progressive muscular dystrophy and alterations in serum enzyme activity were consistent with a dystrophic process. It is concluded that this patient is suffering from the rare condition of congenital muscular dystrophy.

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