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A 41-year-old man with a history of paralytic poliomyelitis at 9 months of age presented with progressive limb weakness and massive compensatory hypertrophy of the right calf muscles.
Case Report (n=1)
This case report describes a rare presentation of massive calf hypertrophy and progressive weakness decades after paralytic poliomyelitis.
Alerts clinicians to rare compensatory calf hypertrophy decades after poliomyelitis; extends case literature but leaves open any causal link to progressive weakness.
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Wilson et al. (2000) conducted a case report in Calf hypertrophy following paralytic poliomyelitis (n=1). Paralytic poliomyelitis was evaluated on Clinical presentation. A 41-year-old man with a history of paralytic poliomyelitis at 9 months of age presented with progressive limb weakness and massive compensatory hypertrophy of the right calf muscles.
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