title: [Radiological diagnostics of muscle diseases].
abstract: Muscular diseases are a heterogeneous group of diseases with difficult differential diagnosis. This article reviews morphological and functional radiological techniques for assessment of muscular diseases. Morphological techniques can describe edema-like changes, lipomatous and atrophic changes of muscular tissue. However, these imaging signs are often not disease-specific. As a result, clinicians assign radiology a secondary role in the management of muscular diseases. Meanwhile, functional radiological techniques allow the assessment of muscle fiber architecture, skeletal muscle perfusion, myocellular sodium-homoeostasis, lipid- and energy-phosphate metabolism, etc. By detecting and spatially localizing pathophysiological phenomena, these new techniques can increase the role of radiology in muscular diseases.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung Radiologie, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69123 Heidelberg. m.a.weber@dkfz.de
authors.forename: M-A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Weber
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Essig
authors.forename: H-U
authors.initials: HU
authors.lastname: Kauczor
mesh_terms: D003287:Contrast Media; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D038524:Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D018810:Magnetic Resonance Angiography; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000473:pathology; D009135:Muscular Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography
chemical_list: D003287:Contrast Media