… biopsy has long been recognized as the gold standard in the diagnosis of myopathy. Even
… abnormalities visible on MRI of muscle and the use of MRI in patients who have myopathy. …

… He was diagnosed with Miyoshi myopathy following a muscle biopsy; genetic testing was
not yet commercially available. (A) T1 weighted imaging reveals increased signal exclusively …

… volume of the muscle contingent on whole-body muscle MRI is becoming increasingly …
diagnosis of inherited and acquired myopathies. MRI helps orientating the clinical diagnostic …

… muscle involvement and help in guiding of muscle biopsy. This review discusses significant
MRI developments aimed at improving the diagnostic … as magnetic resonance spectroscopy, …

… , MRI has a high diagnostic accuracy in diagnosing a subacute-onset IIM, in particular as an
add-on test to the muscle biopsy in patients with a negative muscle … suggest that MRI may be …

… imaging provides important information for both IIM diagnosis and follow-up. We will discuss
the most frequently used technique in routine: the muscle MRI, but also other noninvasive …

… We report muscle MRI findings of 10 patients from 8 families with nemaline myopathy. …
showed a consistent pattern of selective muscle involvement corresponding to clinical severity. In …

… Muscle MRI is emerging as a useful tool in the diagnosis and follow-up of patients with
muscle diseases. Muscle MRI is a non-invasive tool to assess skeletal muscle edema or …

… However, data from electromyographic [1114] and muscle biopsy [15-17] … distal myopathy
and probably precedes the muscle changes [19]. In this study MRI in combination with muscle …

… a biopsy in autoimmune myopathies [16, 17]. In human dystrophic muscle MRI analysis has
… In three patients presenting the myopathic type of muscular sarcoidosis, MRI failed to detect …