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Case Reports in Neurological Medicine
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 726984, 3 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/726984
Case Report

Elderly Onset of Weakness in Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy

Dominic B. Fee

Department of Neurology, University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center, Lexington, KY 40536, USA

Received 7 June 2012; Accepted 23 August 2012

Academic Editors: A. E. Cavanna and J. E. Cohen

Copyright © 2012 Dominic B. Fee. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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