"Muscular Atrophy, Spinal" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A group of disorders marked by progressive degeneration of motor neurons in the spinal cord resulting in weakness and muscular atrophy, usually without evidence of injury to the corticospinal tracts. Diseases in this category include Werdnig-Hoffmann disease and later onset SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHIES OF CHILDHOOD, most of which are hereditary. (Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p1089)
| Descriptor ID |
D009134
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C10.228.854.468 C10.574.562.500 C10.668.467.500 C10.668.475
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| Concept/Terms |
Bulbospinal Neuronopathy- Bulbospinal Neuronopathy
- Bulbospinal Neuronopathies
- Neuronopathies, Bulbospinal
- Neuronopathy, Bulbospinal
Scapuloperoneal Form of Spinal Muscular Atrophy- Scapuloperoneal Form of Spinal Muscular Atrophy
- Amyotrophy, Neurogenic Scapuloperoneal, New England Type
- Spinal Muscular Atrophy, Scapuloperoneal
- Scapuloperoneal Spinal Muscular Atrophy
- Spinal Muscular Atrophy, Scapuloperoneal Form
Myelopathic Muscular Atrophy- Myelopathic Muscular Atrophy
- Atrophy, Myelopathic Muscular
- Muscular Atrophy, Myelopathic
- Adult-Onset Spinal Muscular Atrophy
- Adult Onset Spinal Muscular Atrophy
- Muscular Atrophy, Adult Spinal
- Adult Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Progressive Muscular Atrophy- Progressive Muscular Atrophy
- Atrophies, Progressive Muscular
- Atrophy, Progressive Muscular
- Muscular Atrophies, Progressive
- Muscular Atrophy, Progressive
- Progressive Muscular Atrophies
- Progressive Myelopathic Muscular Atrophy
- Myelopathic Muscular Atrophy, Progressive
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