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Differential diagnosis

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Conditions with similar signs to limb girdle dystrophy include:

  • some chronic spinal muscular atrophies may show an identical distribution of proximal muscle weakness and may be differentiated only on the EMG and muscle biopsy

  • polymyositis and dermatomyositis

  • certain metabolic myopathies e.g. adult-onset acid maltase deficiency

  • facio-scapulo-humeral dystrophy

  • Becker and Duchenne muscular dystrophy

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