Muscular dystrophy: basic facts

as the muscles of the arms and legs). The four types of muscular dystrophy (MD) described in this pamphlet — congenital muscular dystrophy (CMD), distal muscular dystrophy (DD), Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy (EDMD) and oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD) — are among the rarer forms of muscular dystrophy. ................
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