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Muscular Atrophy, Spinal

"Muscular Atrophy, Spinal" 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.

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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)


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Muscular Atrophy, Spinal" by people in UAMS Profiles by year, and whether "Muscular Atrophy, Spinal" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 11 publications over 7 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2020
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