amyotrophy

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amyotrophy

[a″mi-ot´ro-fe]

a painful condition with wasting and weakness of muscle, commonly involving the deltoid muscle.

a·my·ot·ro·phy

(ă'mī'ot'rō-fē),

Muscular wasting or atrophy.

Synonym(s): amyotrophia

[G. a- priv. + mys, muscle, + trophē, nourishment]

amyotrophy

/amy·ot·ro·phy/ (a″mi-ot´rah-fe) muscular atrophy.amyotro´phic

diabetic amyotrophy a painful condition, associated with diabetes, with progressive wasting and weakening of muscles, usually limited to the muscles of the pelvic girdle and thigh.

neuralgic amyotrophy atrophy and paralysis of the muscles of the shoulder girdle, with pain across the shoulder and upper arm.

amy·ot·ro·phy

, amyotrophia (ā'mī-ot'rō-fē, ă-mī'ō-trō'fē-ă)

Muscular wasting or atrophy.

[G. a- priv. + mys, muscle, + trophē, nourishment]

amy·ot·ro·phy

, amyotrophia (ā'mī-ot'rō-fē, ă-mī'ō-trō'fē-ă)

Muscular wasting or atrophy.

[G. a- priv. + mys, muscle, + trophē, nourishment]

amyotrophy

atrophy of muscles.

neurogenic amyotrophy

see muscular atrophy.

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Bilateral neuralgic amyotrophy induced by interferon treatment.

Neuralgic amyotrophy due to rheumatoid arthritis or etanercept: causal association or coincidence?

reported a case of HEV genotype 3-induced neuralgic amyotrophy in which HEV RNA was detected in the serum of patients with neurologic signs and symptoms (14), and we recently detected HEV RNA in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of a kidney-transplant recipient with chronic HEV infection and neurologic signs and symptoms (15).

The entire genome sequence of hepatitis E virus genotype 3 isolated from a patient with neuralgic amyotrophy.

Hepatitis E virus and neurologic disorders

Neuralgic amyotrophy as the primary cause of shoulder painin a patient with rotator cuff tear.

Evidence of a founder effect and refinement of the hereditary neuralgic amyotrophy (HNA) locus on 17q25 in American families.

Sensory nerve conduction studies in neuralgic amyotrophy.

The case of neuralgic amyotrophy with bilateral axillary nerve involvement/Bilateral aksiller sinir tutulumu ile seyreden noraljik amiyotrofi olgusu

MMA is commonly misdiagnosed and should be considered in differential diagnosis in patients presenting with amyotrophy involving lower and upper extremity behind other diagnosis.

The condition of our patients shares many features with focal amyotrophy first described by Hirayama in 1959 (5).