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Nervous System Diseases > Neurodegenerative Diseases > Motor Neuron Disease > Muscular Atrophy, Spinal
Nervous System Diseases > Neuromuscular Diseases > Motor Neuron Disease > Muscular Atrophy, Spinal
Nervous System Diseases > Central Nervous System Diseases > Spinal Cord Diseases > Muscular Atrophy, Spinal

Preferred term

Muscular Atrophy, Spinal  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Amyotrophies, Spinal
  • Amyotrophy, Spinal
  • Spinal Amyotrophies
  • Spinal Amyotrophy
  • Spinal Muscular Atrophy

Note

  • MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL, INFANTILE see SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHIES OF CHILDHOOD is also available

Scope note

  • A group of disorders marked by progressive degeneration of motor neurons in the spinal cord resulting in weakness and muscular atrophy, usually without evidence of injury to the corticospinal tracts. Diseases in this category include Werdnig-Hoffmann disease and later onset SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHIES OF CHILDHOOD, most of which are hereditary. (Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p1089)

History note

  • 1988

In other languages

  • spinaalinen lihasatrofia

    Finnish

  • atrophia musculorum spinalis non specificata
  • hermoperäinen lihassurkastuma
  • määrittämätön spinaalinen lihasatrofia
  • ospecificerad spinal muskelatrofi
  • spinaalinen lihassurkastuma
  • spinaalinen lihasten surkastuminen
  • Spinal muskelatrofi

    Swedish

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D009134

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