Extraocular muscles: extraocular muscle involvement in disease

Extraocular muscles : extraocular muscle involvement in disease

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Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2010
2010
English.
In: Encyclopedia of the eye. - Amsterdam : Elsevier. - 9780123742032 ; , s. 99-104

Abstract Subject headings

The extraocular muscles (EOMs) have unique functional and structural properties that truly set them apart from the other skeletal muscles in the body. Their most outstanding feature is a distinct behavior in disease. The EOMs remain unaffected in Duchenne muscular dystrophy and merosin-deficient congenital muscle dystrophy, two devastating muscle diseases causing severe handicap and precocious death. The EOMs are remarkably spared in motor neuron diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also a lethal neuromuscular disease. In contrast, these muscles are selectively affected in the Miller Fisher syndrome, and they are often the primary target in myasthenia gravis – two diseases affecting the neuromuscular junction.

MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Clinical Medicine -- Ophthalmology (hsv//eng)
MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Klinisk medicin -- Oftalmologi (hsv//swe)
MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Klinisk medicin (hsv//swe)
MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Clinical Medicine (hsv//eng)

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Duchenne muscular dystrophy; Extraocular muscle; Merosin-deficient congenital muscle dystrophy; Miller Fisher syndrome; Mitochondrial myopathies; Myasthenia gravis; Ocular myasthenia
Ophtalmology
Oftalmologi
Ophtalmology
oftalmiatrik

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MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES: MEDICAL AND HEAL ...; and Clinical Medicin ...; and Ophthalmology

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