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Benign Familial Disease with Muscle Mounding and Rippling
JNNP 57:344-347, Burns,R.J.,et al, 1994
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Article Abstract
Four members of a family in three generations exhibited unusual clinical features of localized transient swelling of muscle induced by percussion (muscle mounding or myoedema)and were able,voluntarily,to induce rhythmic waves of contraction in certain muscles(muscle rippling or rolling).All had raised serum creatine kinase activity.Muscle biopsy in two members showed no specific abnormality.Experimental studies performed on excised intercostal muscle showed that abnormal"after contractions"and increased sarcolemmal excitability could be demonstrated in vitro.
 
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