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Electromyographic diagnosis of multifocal pyomyositis
- Source :
- Muscle & Nerve. 51:293-296
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2014.
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Abstract
- Introduction: Multifocal pyomyositis is a rare inflammatory myopathy caused by bacterial infection and abscess formation in multiple skeletal muscles. To date, electromyography (EMG) of pyomyositis has not been reported. Methods: We describe the EMG findings of a patient with pathologically proven multifocal pyomyositis. Results and Conclusions: Muscles affected by pyomyositis demonstrate EMG features similar to those of other inflammatory myopathies. Other features such as acute entrapment neuropathy may exist concomitantly due to nerve compression from muscle abscess formation. Muscle Nerve 51: 293–296, 2015
- Subjects :
- Pathology
medicine.medical_specialty
Pyomyositis
medicine.diagnostic_test
Physiology
business.industry
Electromyography
medicine.disease
Inflammatory myopathy
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Muscle nerve
Physiology (medical)
Muscle abscess
medicine
Entrapment Neuropathy
Neurology (clinical)
medicine.symptom
Abscess
business
Myopathy
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 0148639X
- Volume :
- 51
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Muscle & Nerve
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........031c047b1c453cbad08890c5c3aed7eb