Inherited myopathies are a group of disease, which, although distinct from a genetic and
prognostic point of view, can lead to non-specific clinical pictures due to phenotypic overlap …

Purpose of review The aims of this review are to discuss the imaging modalities used to
assess muscle changes in myopathies, to provide an overview of the inherited myopathies …

Background and aims: The role of muscle magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the
diagnostic procedures of myopathies is still controversially discussed. The current study was …

Myopathies represent a heterogeneous group of skeletal muscle disorders characterized by
morphological and functional changes in the muscle, such as replacement of muscle tissue …

Interest in muscle MRI has been largely stimulated in the last few years by the recognition of
an increasing number of genetic defects in the field of inherited neuromuscular disorders …

A growing body of the literature supports the use of magnetic resonance imaging as a
potential biomarker for disease severity in the hereditary myopathies. We performed a …

Although the presumptive diagnosis of skeletal muscle disease (myopathy) may be made on
the basis of clinical–radiological correlation in many cases, muscle biopsy remains the …

Patients with muscle disorders can present a diagnostic challenge to physicians because of
the different ways they can present and the large number of different underlying causes …

Driven by increasing numbers of newly identified genetic defects and new insights into the
field of inherited muscle diseases, neuromuscular imaging in general and magnetic …

Since the discovery of mutations in the dystrophin gene in 1987, there has been a string of
exciting genetic discoveries in the field of inherited neuromuscular disorders, with an always …