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
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
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- WikiProject Medicine
- different from
- Duchenne muscular dystrophy
- Commons category
- Becker muscular dystrophy
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