Combining MRI and muscle biopsy improves diagnostic accuracy in subacute-onset idiopathic inflammatory myopathy

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 253-258

  Van De Vlekkert, Janneke ^a   Maas, Mario ^b   Hoogendijk, Jessica E ^c   De Visser, Marianne ^a   Van Schaik, Ivo N ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dermatomyositis; Idiopathic inflammatory myopathy; Muscle biopsy; Muscle MRI; Myositis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM; BIOPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOSITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; THIGH;

ADULT; BIOPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOSITIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THIGH; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 84920868861     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.24307     Document Type: Article

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