Contrasting echogenicity in flexor digitorum profundus-flexor carpi ulnaris: A diagnostic ultrasound pattern in sporadic inclusion body myositis

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 745-748

  Noto, Yu Ichi ^a   Shiga, Kensuke ^a   Tsuji, Yukiko ^a   Kondo, Masaki ^a   Tokuda, Takahiko ^a   Mizuno, Toshiki ^a   Nakagawa, Masanori ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Diagnosis; Inclusion body myositis; Muscle; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DERMATOMYOSITIS; DISEASE DURATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLEXOR CARPI ULNARIS MUSCLE; FLEXOR DIGITORUM PROFUNDUS MUSCLE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCLUSION BODY MYOSITIS; JAPANESE; MALE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYMYOSITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULNAR NERVE;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; DIAGNOSIS; INCLUSION BODY MYOSITIS; MUSCLE; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; DERMATOMYOSITIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOSITIS, INCLUSION BODY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84901413816     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.24056     Document Type: Article

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