TY  - JOUR
AU  - Dafotakis, M.
AU  - Sparing, R.
AU  - Eickhoff, S. B.
AU  - Boy, C.
AU  - Nikolin, S.
AU  - Fink, G. R.
TI  - Postinfectious focal necrotizing myopathy
JO  - Clinical nuclear medicine
VL  - 33
SN  - 0363-9762
CY  - Philadelphia, Pa.
PB  - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
M1  - PreJuSER-62953
SP  - 500 - 501
PY  - 2008
N1  - Record converted from VDB: 12.11.2012
AB  - 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.
KW  - Adult
KW  - Biopsy
KW  - Common Cold: complications
KW  - Electromyography: methods
KW  - Female
KW  - Humans
KW  - Inflammation
KW  - Muscle, Skeletal: pathology
KW  - Muscular Diseases: diagnosis
KW  - Muscular Diseases: radionuclide imaging
KW  - Necrosis: diagnosis
KW  - Necrosis: radionuclide imaging
KW  - Radionuclide Imaging: methods
KW  - Radiopharmaceuticals: diagnostic use
KW  - Technetium Tc 99m Medronate: analogs & derivatives
KW  - Technetium Tc 99m Medronate: diagnostic use
KW  - Time Factors
KW  - Radiopharmaceuticals (NLM Chemicals)
KW  - Technetium Tc 99m Medronate (NLM Chemicals)
KW  - technetium Tc 99m hydroxymethylene diphosphonate (NLM Chemicals)
KW  - J (WoSType)
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:18580242
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000257094100015
DO  - DOI:10.1097/RLU.0b013e3181779324
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/62953
ER  -