Muscle imaging in neuromuscular disease using computerized real-time sonography.
The results of a study utilizing computerized real-time sonography (CRS) to image muscles in patients with neuromuscular disease are presented for 67 patients, 37 with neuromuscular disease and 4 with upper motor neuron disease, and 26 age-matched healthy controls between the ages of 2 days and 59 years. CRS is a safe, noninvasive, atraumatic method for evaluating a broad range of neuromuscular diseases. It is capable of differentiating myopathies or dystrophies from neurogenic atrophies and floppy infants with "central" hypotonia from those with neuromuscular diseases.
Fischer
A Q
AQ
Department of Neurology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta 30912.
Carpenter
D W
DW
Hartlage
P L
PL
Carroll
J E
JE
Stephens
S
S
D006801:Humans; D009046:Motor Neurons; D009132:Muscles / Q000473:pathology*; D009135:Muscular Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D009136:Muscular Dystrophies / Q000175:diagnosis; D009468:Neuromuscular Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014463:Ultrasonography