Neurogenic Muscular Atrophy

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Key Facts

Abbreviation
NMA
Pronunciation
/ˌnjʊəroʊˈdʒɛnɪk ˈmʌskjələr ˈætrəfi/
Category
Medical
Related Field
Physiology

Examples in Context

  1. There is loss of anterior horn cells, so that patients present with progressive weakness that proceeds to paralysis from neurogenic muscular atrophy.
  2. Because of normal spinal anteriored horn cells and sural nerves, so neurogenic muscular atrophy may rule out.
  3. 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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