Organic and functional nervous diseases; a text-book of neurology . LANDOtlZY-DEJEniyE DYSTROPHY. Sli because in dystrophy the tongue and muscles of swallowing are notinvolved. ?/? Prognosis. — The prognosis in muscular dystrophy is all forms of the disease there is a tendency to slow progress, to an Fig. Progressive muscular dystrophy, atrophic type of Landouzy-Dejerine. Age, nine years; duration,seven years. Face, arms, and legs extremely atrophied. Face expressionless; pectorals and deltoidswholly atrophic ; thighs atrophied. The forearms and the legs are normal. (Cursc
Organic and functional nervous diseases; a text-book of neurology . LANDOtlZY-DEJEniyE DYSTROPHY. Sli because in dystrophy the tongue and muscles of swallowing are notinvolved. ?/? Prognosis. — The prognosis in muscular dystrophy is all forms of the disease there is a tendency to slow progress, to an Fig. Progressive muscular dystrophy, atrophic type of Landouzy-Dejerine. Age, nine years; duration,seven years. Face, arms, and legs extremely atrophied. Face expressionless; pectorals and deltoidswholly atrophic ; thighs atrophied. The forearms and the legs are normal. (Curschmann.) extension of the aifection from muscle to muscle until finally a stateof helpless paralysis with extreme emaciation is reached. This, how-ever, is not an invariable occurrence, as I have seen several patients inwhom the disease has come to a standstill and who have remained in astationary condition for six or eight years without being incapacitatedfrom walking. The prognosis as far as life is concerned is good, pro-vided complicating diseases, especially of the respiratory organs, are 316 MUSCULAR DYSTFOPHIES. prevented. These patients are peculiarly liable to develop tuberculosisof the lungs or pneumonia or bronchitis from disability in respiratorymovements. Occasionally the diaphragm is involved and the pati
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