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Reliability and accuracy of skeletal muscle imaging in limb-girdle muscular dystrophies.
Neurology - 16 Oct 2012
ten Dam Leroy, van der Kooi Anneke J, van Wattingen Menno, de Haan Rob J, de Visser Marianne
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the reliability and accuracy of skeletal muscle CT to correctly identify different muscular dystrophies manifesting with limb-girdle weakness. METHODS: Four evaluators assessed scans from 118 patients with limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD) caused by mutations in 7 different genes and from 32 controls. The conditions studied were scans of genetically confirmed cases of Becker muscular...
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