title: Subclinical myopathic findings in patients affected by malignant tumours. An autopsy study.
abstract: Histoenzymologic studies on representative muscles and the peripheral microcirculation from selected autopsies of non cachectic patients dying of neoplasms, without signs of neuromuscular involvement, demonstrate a high incidence of neuromuscular and microcirculatory changes. A correlation between neuromuscular changes and the peripheral microcirculation particularly evident in myopathic cases is discussed.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001344:Autopsy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008833:Microcirculation; D008875:Middle Aged; D009132:Muscles / Q000098:blood supply / Q000473:pathology*; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D009420:Nervous System / Q000473:pathology