Nemaline Myopathy: Respiratory Failure

Authors

  • J Gordon Millichap Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15844/pedneurbriefs-5-3-6

Keywords:

Nemaline Myopathy, Pneumothorax, Fibrous Tissue

Abstract

A Japanese boy with nemaline myopathy diagnosed at three years of age and complicated by severe respiratory failure at 8 years is reported from the Division of Child Neurology, National Center Hospital for Mental, Nervous, and Muscular Disorders, Kodaira, Tokyo, Japan.

Published

1991-03-01

Issue

Section

Muscle Disorders