%0 Journal Article
%T Hirayama¡¯s disease: an Italian single center experience and review of the literature
%A Arturo Brunetti
%A Chiara Pisciotta
%A Ferdinando Caranci
%A Fiore Manganelli
%A Francesco Briganti
%A Lucio Santoro
%A Valerio Vitale
%J SCIE-indexed Journal
%D 2016
%X Hirayama¡¯s disease (HD), also known as ¡°juvenile muscular atrophy of distal upper extremity¡± (JMADUE), was first described by Hirayama et al. in 1959 (1). Since then, the greatest number of cases have been reported from Japan and other Asian countries (1-6); in contrast, it is less common among the population of the North America and Europe, however lately some case series were published (7-10). Some case reports were reported in Italy (11-13) but to our knowledge this is the first reported Italian group of patients with HD
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