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Semin Neurol 1999; 19(1): 87-92
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1040892
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Early Observations on Muscular Dystrophy: Gowers' Textbook Revisited

Robert M. Pascuzzi
  • Department of Neurology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana
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19 March 2008 (online)

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ABSTRACT

Early clinical observations on Duchenne muscular dystrophy can be traced through the works of Meryon, Little, Duchenne, Gowers, and Erb. Gowers sites Sir Charles Bell with its earliest clinical description. Gowers' phenomenal textbook provides vivid descriptions of Duchenne dystrophy, clinical features which are herein revisited.

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Gowers - early clinical descriptions of Duchenne muscular dystrophy