Whole-Body Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Skeletal Muscle Disease

ABSTRACT

The evaluation of muscle diseases has traditionally integrated clinical with biochemical findings, occasionally resorting to muscle biopsy. This article reviews the role and imaging appearances of muscle diseases at MRI, specifically emphasising the role of WBMRI in global assessment of muscle abnormality, and in particular its role in determining distribution and extent of muscle abnormality.

KEYWORDS

Whole-body MRI - inflammatory myopathy - neuromuscular disorders - muscle atrophy - muscle edema

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