title: Muscle imaging in neuromuscular disease using computerized real-time sonography.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta 30912.
authors.forename: A Q
authors.initials: AQ
authors.lastname: Fischer
authors.forename: D W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Carpenter
authors.forename: P L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Hartlage
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Carroll
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Stephens
mesh_terms: 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