%0 Journal Article
%A Dafotakis, M.
%A Sparing, R.
%A Eickhoff, S. B.
%A Boy, C.
%A Nikolin, S.
%A Fink, G. R.
%T Postinfectious focal necrotizing myopathy
%J Clinical nuclear medicine
%V 33
%@ 0363-9762
%C Philadelphia, Pa.
%I Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
%M PreJuSER-62953
%P 500 - 501
%D 2008
%Z Record converted from VDB: 12.11.2012
%X A 37-year-old woman was admitted to our department with general fatigue, fever, and asymmetric pain in her lower legs, 2 weeks after a common cold. Dynamic skeletal scintigraphy with 780 MBq (20 mCi) Tc-99m HDP revealed increased perfusion and tracer uptake in the soft tissue of the lower legs, suggesting an inflammatory etiology. A muscle biopsy revealed a vasculitic necrotizing myopathy predominantly affecting the small vessels of the lower legs. We diagnosed it as a postinfectious immunologic reaction.
%K Adult
%K Biopsy
%K Common Cold: complications
%K Electromyography: methods
%K Female
%K Humans
%K Inflammation
%K Muscle, Skeletal: pathology
%K Muscular Diseases: diagnosis
%K Muscular Diseases: radionuclide imaging
%K Necrosis: diagnosis
%K Necrosis: radionuclide imaging
%K Radionuclide Imaging: methods
%K Radiopharmaceuticals: diagnostic use
%K Technetium Tc 99m Medronate: analogs & derivatives
%K Technetium Tc 99m Medronate: diagnostic use
%K Time Factors
%K Radiopharmaceuticals (NLM Chemicals)
%K Technetium Tc 99m Medronate (NLM Chemicals)
%K technetium Tc 99m hydroxymethylene diphosphonate (NLM Chemicals)
%K J (WoSType)
%F PUB:(DE-HGF)16
%9 Journal Article
%$ pmid:18580242
%U <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000257094100015
%R 10.1097/RLU.0b013e3181779324
%U https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/62953