Muscle biopsy
Muscle biopsy features of idiopathic inflammatory myopathies and differential diagnosis
... Single muscle fibers or clusters of muscle fibers in various stages of necrosis and/or regeneration are observed frequently ...2 muscle fibers, may affect two to ten layers and strongly support a ...
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The challenges of muscle biopsy in a community based geriatric population
... that muscle biopsy is a feasible tool in a frail or sarcopenic older population [9– 11, ...percutaneous muscle biopsies in frail older adults and we describe contra-indi- cations in the majority of ...
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MRI guided wire localization muscle biopsy in a child with juvenile dermatomyositis
... and muscle mani- festations are most common, typically consisting of a heliotrope rash involving the eyelids, erythematous rash on the extensor surfaces (Gottron’s papules), and prox- imal muscle weakness ...
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Differences in pain perception during open muscle biopsy and Bergstroem needle muscle biopsy
... a muscle biopsy, health care professionals are often confronted with a certain anxiety on the patient’s part concerning potential pain during the ...which biopsy technique might allow for the least ...
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Pathogenic mtDNA mutations causing mitochondrial myopathy: The need for muscle biopsy
... in muscle, varying from 25% in patient 3 to ...Single muscle fiber segregation studies demonstrated statistically sig- nificant higher mutation levels in COX-deficient fi- bers compared with COX-positive ...
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Yield of Muscle Biopsy in Patients with Findings of Myopathy on Electrodiagnostic Testing.
... Improper muscle selection for biopsy, inadequate amount of the biopsy specimen, lack of use of special stains, and electron microscopic examination, limited experience of the observer or very ...
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Unusual Presentations of Dystrophinopathies in Childhood
... of muscle weakness, and developmental milestones were ...prominent muscle bulk of the quadriceps and deltoids but normal muscle ...A muscle biopsy (revealing mild dystrophic changes on ...
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The NKG2D – IL-15 signaling pathway contributes to T-cell mediated pathology in inflammatory myopathies
... For double-immunofluorescence staining 8-10 µm sections of muscle biopsy specimens were adapted to room temperature (RT) for 20 min and fixed with acetone for 10 min. Afterwards the sections were incubated ...
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Congenital myopathies in the adult neuromuscular clinic
... nonspecific muscle biopsies in our cohort is significantly higher than previously reported and indicates that muscle biopsy has a lower sensitivity for CM in ...of muscle matura- tion and length ...
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Muscle and adipose tissue biopsy in older adults with type 2 diabetes
... needle biopsy method (as used in this study), increased the size of skeletal muscle specimens compared with the original percutaneous muscle biopsy technique described by Bergstrom in 1962 ...
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Isolation of Gemella morbillorum in Herniated Intervertebral Disc Tissue in a Lumbar Discectomy Patient: A Case Report
... Excised disc material, skin and muscles were investigated for the presence of aerobic and anaerobic bacteria. Skin scrapings and muscle biopsy samples were used as controls, to rule out the possibility of ...
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Dystrophinopathy presenting with arrhythmia in an asymptomatic 34 year old man: a case report
... cardiac muscle biopsy revealed no pathologic findings to support myocarditis, but mild fibrosis and increased variability in cardiac myocyte diameter and the nuclear morphology were consistent with a ...
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How do surgical pathologists evaluate critical diagnoses (critical values)?
... kidney biopsy specimens ...heart biopsy specimen, large vessels in a core biopsy specimen, fat in snare of biopsies of a colon polyp, and acid-fast bacilli in a tissue biopsy ...heart ...
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Influence of muscle fibre composition on muscle oxygenation during maximal running
... A muscle biopsy sample was taken with a 14G×75 mm needle (ONECUT; TSK Laboratory, Japan) from the left vastus lateralis at the same region that was measured by NIRS on a different ...the muscle fi bre ...
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MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY IN INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD
... l)lasic motor unit potentials with short, sharp spikes were demonstrated in the right deltoid and biceps muscles.. On muscle biopsy there was a.[r] ...
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Multiple skeletal muscle metastases from poorly differentiated gastric adenocarcinoma
... tubercular muscle abscess, primary soft-tissue sarcoma, and metastatic ...open muscle biopsy showed poorly differentiated adeno- carcinoma, supporting a diagnosis of gastric cancer metas- tases in ...
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Muscle pathology in myotonic dystrophy: light and electron microscopic investigation in eighteen patients
... Our analysis of DM1 biopsies included only three cases. As already mentioned, muscle biopsy is no longer considered necessary in the diagnosis of DM1. The biopsies presented here were taken long before ...
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Ultrasonic assessment of exercise-induced change in skeletal muscle glycogen content
... quadriceps muscle glyco- gen content and exercise-induced decreases in muscle glycogen content despite the wide variation in glyco- gen depletion following the rigorous 75-km cycling time ...in ...
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PFKM gene defect and glycogen storage disease GSDVII with misleading enzyme histochemistry
... Muscle biopsy and enzymatic studies. Muscle biopsies were taken from tibialis anterior (P1: age 58 years; P2: age 51 years) and vastus lateralis (P2: age 47 ...
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Psoriasis, bulbar involvement, and diarrhea in late myoclonic epilepsy with ragged-red fibers-syndrome due to the m.8344A > G tRNA (Lys) mutation
... tibial muscle showing a pseudomyotonic discharge (upper panel), shortened motor unit action potentials (MUAP) with a mean of ...part: Muscle biopsy from the left deltoid muscle revealed ...
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