Becker muscular dystrophy
Sign in to saveAlso known as Benign pseudohypertrophic muscular dystrophy, benign congenital myopathy, Becker's muscular dystrophy, BMD
X-linked recessive inherited disorder characterized by slowly progressive muscle weakness of the legs and pelvis
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Within Vinony's link graph, Becker muscular dystrophy is referenced by 159 other articles, and connects out to myotonia congenita, dominance and muscles of respiration.
It is catalogued under topics including Muscular dystrophy, Rare diseases and X-linked recessive disorders.
Its subject is documented across 25 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- disease
- Named after
- Peter Emil Becker
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- symptoms and signs
- muscle weakness
- health specialty
- neurology
- exact match
- identifiers.org/doid/DOID:9883
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C84587
- has cause
- mutation
- medical examination
- electromyography
- possible treatment
- occupational therapy
- prevalence
- 0.0000261
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Medicine
- different from
- Duchenne muscular dystrophy
- Commons category
- Becker muscular dystrophy
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limb-girdle muscular dystrophy
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neuromyotonia
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