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Myotonic Disorders

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Muscle Imaging in Health and Disease

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Myotonic dystrophy was recognized to represent a specific disease by the German internist Hans Steinert1 and the British neurologists Fred Eustace Batten and H.P. Gibb2 in 1909. However, the characteristic combination of myotonia and distal muscle weakness was first described by the American physician C.L. Dana in 1888.3

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  1. Department of Radiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 75235-9071, Dallas, TX, USA

    James L. Fleckenstein MD

  2. RadNet, Inc, 90025-3303, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    John V. Crues III MD

  3. Abteilung für Klinische Neurophysiologie, Universität Göttingen, 37075, Göttingen, Germany

    Carl D. Reimers MD

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Reimers, C.D., Vogl, T.J. (1996). Myotonic Disorders. In: Fleckenstein, J.L., Crues, J.V., Reimers, C.D. (eds) Muscle Imaging in Health and Disease. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2314-6_17

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