Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

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Test:

Specific PCR (+), S.CK (H), muscle biopsy (AB),electromyelogram (AB)

Sign:

Gower's manoeuvre, falls frequently, unable to run

Dd:

Other hereditary 'muscle disorders, spinal cord disease or trauma, viral myositis, polymyositis, dystrophia myotonica, periodic paralysis, meta­bolic myopathies

Phys:

Genetic disease-of males