Neurogenic Muscular Atrophy
Key Facts
Abbreviation
NMA
Pronunciation
/ˌnjʊəroʊˈdʒɛnɪk ˈmʌskjələr ˈætrəfi/
Category
Medical
Related Field
Physiology
Examples in Context
- There is loss of anterior horn cells, so that patients present with progressive weakness that proceeds to paralysis from neurogenic muscular atrophy.
- Because of normal spinal anteriored horn cells and sural nerves, so neurogenic muscular atrophy may rule out.
- In 47 neurogenic patients, the diagnosis were spinal muscular atrophy ( SMA, 29 cases ), sequela of poliomyelitis ( 2 cases ), acute transverse myelitis ( ATM, 4 cases ), and the other 12 patients had no definite diagnosis.
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