Thigh muscle MRI findings in myopathy associated with anti-mitochondrial antibody.

Sumio MinamiyamaSakiho UedaRan NakashimaHodaka YamakadoYusuke SakatoHirofumi YamashitaNobukatsu SawamotoRyota FujimotoIchizo NishinoMakoto UrushitaniTsuneyo MimoriRyosuke Takahashi

Published in: Muscle & nerve (2019)

These characteristic changes on MRI contrast with those of other inflammatory myopathies. From these observations, we concluded that the localization pattern of the inflammatory changes in muscle MRI can contribute to the diagnosis of AMA myopathy.

Keyphrases

contrast enhanced
magnetic resonance imaging
oxidative stress
diffusion weighted imaging
skeletal muscle
magnetic resonance
late onset
computed tomography