Journal Article

PreJuSER-62953

http://join2-wiki.gsi.de/foswiki/pub/Main/Artwork/join2_logo100x88.png Postinfectious focal necrotizing myopathy

Dafotakis, M.FZJ* ; Sparing, R. ; Eickhoff, S. B.FZJ* ; Boy, C. ; Nikolin, S. ; Fink, G. R.FZJ*

2008
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Philadelphia, Pa.

This record in other databases:    

Please use a persistent id in citations: doi:10.1097/RLU.0b013e3181779324

Abstract: 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.

Keyword(s): Adult (MeSH) ; Biopsy (MeSH) ; Common Cold: complications (MeSH) ; Electromyography: methods (MeSH) ; Female (MeSH) ; Humans (MeSH) ; Inflammation (MeSH) ; Muscle, Skeletal: pathology (MeSH) ; Muscular Diseases: diagnosis (MeSH) ; Muscular Diseases: radionuclide imaging (MeSH) ; Necrosis: diagnosis (MeSH) ; Necrosis: radionuclide imaging (MeSH) ; Radionuclide Imaging: methods (MeSH) ; Radiopharmaceuticals: diagnostic use (MeSH) ; Technetium Tc 99m Medronate: analogs & derivatives (MeSH) ; Technetium Tc 99m Medronate: diagnostic use (MeSH) ; Time Factors (MeSH) ; Radiopharmaceuticals ; Technetium Tc 99m Medronate ; technetium Tc 99m hydroxymethylene diphosphonate ; J ; vasculitis (auto) ; myositis (auto) ; histopathology (auto) ; Tc-99m HDP (auto)

Note: Record converted from VDB: 12.11.2012

---

Contributing Institute(s):

1. Medizin (INB-3)

Research Program(s):

1. Funktion und Dysfunktion des Nervensystems (P33)

Appears in the scientific report 2008

---