Muscle magnetic resonance imaging (MRI): disease-specific patterns
Written and reviewed by Dr Ibrahim Imam, Consultant Neurologist. Last reviewed .
Muscle magnetic resonance imaging (MRI): disease-specific patterns. Muscle trauma, Inherited muscle diseases. Fully referenced neurology checklist.
Indications for MRI muscle
- Muscle trauma
- Inherited muscle diseases
- Inflammatory muscle diseases
- Neoplastic muscle diseases
- Monitoring disease progression
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD): sites of atrophy and oedema
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Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD): spared muscles
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Dysferlinopathy (LGMD2B): sites of early fatty infiltration
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Dysferlinopathy (LGMD2B): sites of later fatty infiltration
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Sarcoglyconopathy (LGMD2C-2F): affected muscles
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Myofibrillar myopathy (MFM)
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SEPN1 myopathy
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Non-dystrophic myotonias
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Spinal muscular dystrophy 3b (SMA3b)
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Myotonic dystrophy: early affected muscles
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Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD)
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Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD)
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References
- Wattjes MP, Kley RA Fischer D. Neuromuscular imaging in inherited muscle diseases. Eur Radiol 2010; 20:2447-2460.
- Theodorou DJ, Theodorou SJ, Kakitsubata Y. Skeletal muscle disease: patterns of MRI appearances. Br J Radiol 2012; 85:e1298-e1308.
- Ortolan P, Zanato R, Coran A, Beltrame V, Stramare R. Role of radiologic imaging in genetic and acquired neuromuscular disorders. Eur J Transl Myol 2015; 25:5014.
- Morrow JM, Sinclair CD, Fischmann A, et al. MRI biomarker assessment of neuromuscular disease progression: a prospective observational cohort study. Lancet Neurol 2016; 15:65-77.
- Polavarapu K, Manjunath M, Preethish-Kumar V, et al. Muscle MRI in Duchenne muscular dystrophy: evidence of a distinctive pattern. Neuromuscul Disord 2016; 26:768-774.
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