Peiris J B, Seneviratne K N, Wickremasinghe H R, Gunatilake S B, Gamage R
Institute of Neurology, General Hospital, Sri Lanka.
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 1989 Mar;52(3):314-9. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.52.3.314.
An uncommon variety of non familial, juvenile onset, spinal muscular atrophy with asymmetric distal upper extremity affection is described. One hundred and two patients with a one to 14 year follow up are analysed. Spinal muscular atrophies with a distal distribution are rare. However, in the past three decades, previously unrecognised varieties of neurogenic muscular atrophy have been described in Asia (Japan, India, Sri Lanka and Singapore) under a variety of names. These provide interesting data for discussion of Asian neurogenic muscular atrophies with distal affection, in the context of diseases of the motor neuron.
本文描述了一种罕见的非家族性、青少年起病、以不对称性上肢远端受累为特征的脊髓性肌萎缩症。对102例患者进行了为期1至14年的随访分析。远端型脊髓性肌萎缩症较为罕见。然而，在过去三十年中，亚洲（日本、印度、斯里兰卡和新加坡）曾以各种名称描述过一些此前未被认识的神经源性肌萎缩症类型。这些为在运动神经元疾病背景下讨论亚洲远端受累的神经源性肌萎缩症提供了有趣的数据。
