The Muscular Dystrophies and Related Disorders
1978; American Medical Association; Volume: 239; Issue: 15 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1001/jama.1978.03280420073025
ISSN1538-3598
Autores Tópico(s)Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
ResumoTHE MUSCULAR dystrophies may have a history dating back many centuries. Pöch and Becker 1 suggested that one of the ancient Egyptian sculptures (around 1500 BC) represented persons possibly affected with muscular dystrophy. However, medical descriptions of the disease appeared in the 19th century, which included probably the first recognizable clinical description by Charles Bell 2 in 1830, the pathological observations by Partridge 3 in 1847, and the meticulous definition of clinical and autopsy findings by Meryon 4 in 1852. After several distinguished descriptions of the disorders by Duchenne, 5 Gowers, 6 Landouzy and Déjèrine, 7 and others, Wilhelm Erb 8 published his classical article, which clearly established the disease as an entity. He coined "dystrophia muscularis progressiva" for this disease. The term was subsequently modified slightly to "dystrophia musculorum progressiva." A great deal of knowledge concerning muscular dystrophies has been accumulated for a century. Progress of research on the muscular
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