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Spinal Muscular Atrophies of Childhood

"Spinal Muscular Atrophies of Childhood" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

A group of recessively inherited diseases that feature progressive muscular atrophy and hypotonia. They are classified as type I (Werdnig-Hoffman disease), type II (intermediate form), and type III (Kugelberg-Welander disease). Type I is fatal in infancy, type II has a late infantile onset and is associated with survival into the second or third decade. Type III has its onset in childhood, and is slowly progressive. (J Med Genet 1996 Apr:33(4):281-3)


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Spinal Muscular Atrophies of Childhood" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Spinal Muscular Atrophies of Childhood" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 80 publications over 24 distinct years, with a maximum of 9 publications in 2020 and 2021 and 2023
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