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Werdnig-hoffmann disease

werdnig-hoffmann disease

A recessively inherited acute infantile form of motor neuropathy with proximal muscle wasting particularly of the upper extremities. The chronic childhood form may be an arrested werdnig-hoffmann disorder.


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