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Park, Sohn, Shin, Kim, Park, Kim, and Sung: Nemaline Myopathy Presenting as Adult-onset Distal Myopathy

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Figure 1.
Magnetic resonance imaging of the legs of patient. Fatty degenerative change was predominant in lower leg muscles.
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Figure 2.
Pathologic finding of the patient. Nemaline rods are shown on a modified Gomori-trichrome stain (×200) (A). Electron micrograph shows scattered nemaline rods (arrows) and myofibers with moderate size variation (×20000) (B).
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