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Volume 2000, Issue 2
  • ISSN: 0253-8253
  • EISSN: 2227-0426

Abstract

A Qatari boy presented at birth with muscular weakness and was diagnosed as a case of Walker Warburg syndrome (WWS) on the basis of muscular dystrophy, eye abnormalities and brain anomalies. This is believed to be the first case of WWS reported from the Arab countries. Other similar muscular dystrophies associated with brain anomalies are described and discussed.

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