ReviewPhysical medicine and rehabilitation clinics of North America2012
Muscle biopsy evaluation in neuromuscular disorders.
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94 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 179 citations in OpenAlex.
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- [Expert recommendations for magnetic resonance imaging of muscle disorders].Radiologie (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2024Guideline
- Amputation for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome: Meta-Analysis and Validation of a Histopathology Scoring System.Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 2023Pooled it
- Muscle biopsy practices in the evaluation of neuromuscular disease: A systematic literature review.Neuropathology and applied neurobiology · 2023Pooled it
- Resistance exercise in early-stage ALS patients, ALSFRS-R, Sickness Impact Profile ALS-19, and muscle transcriptome: a pilot study.Scientific reports · 2024Trial
- Psychosocial Determinants of Pain in Muscle Biopsy.Muscle & nerve · 2026Article
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- Time-efficient coronal MRI reflects clinical and pathological features of myopathies.Journal of neuromuscular diseases · 2026Article
- Ultrasound-guided skeletal muscle biopsy technique permits measurement of structural, functional, cellular and biochemical properties.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Skipping the Biopsy: Real-World Experience of Whole-Exome Sequencing as First-Tier Testing in Pediatric Muscular Disorders.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
- Muscle expression of PD1 and PD-L1 may predict the severity and outcomes of neuromuscular immune-related adverse events caused by immune checkpoint inhibitor treatment.Clinical rheumatology · 2026Article
- Morphological differences in myofibre size and shape: A comparative study of the soleus, gastrocnemius, triceps brachii and vastus lateralis in humans and mice.Journal of anatomy · 2026Article
- Diagnostic Value of Muscle Biopsy for the Evaluation of Adult Myopathy in Daily Clinical Practice.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Overview of methods that determine mitochondrial function in human disease.Metabolism: clinical and experimental · 2025Review
- From Doubt to Diagnosis: Canadian Patient Perspectives on a Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy Diagnosis.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2025Article
- IL-6 Promotes Muscle Atrophy by Increasing Ubiquitin-Proteasome Degradation of Muscle Regeneration Factors After Cerebral Infarction in Rats.Neuromolecular medicine · 2025Article
- Twitch force in human Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Article
- Direct Reprogramming of Human DMD Fibroblasts into Myotubes for In Vitro Evaluation of Antisense-Mediated Exon Skipping and Exons 45-55 Skipping Accompanied by Rescue of Dystrophin Expression.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025Article
- Levator muscle changes in Marcus Gunn jaw-winking syndrome and other forms of ocular congenital cranial dysinnervation disorder.Arquivos brasileiros de oftalmologia · 2025Article
- Expanding the Molecular Genetic Landscape of Dystrophinopathies and Associated Phenotypes.Biomedicines · 2024Article
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Abstract
This article reviews the indications for a muscle biopsy, and then gives a step-by-step description of the processes of muscle selection through to interpreting the biopsy report. The article aims to aid the clinician in preparing for a muscle biopsy procedure to avoid common pitfalls and obtain optimal results from this minimally invasive procedure. The basic anatomic structure of normal muscle is reviewed to provide a foundation for understanding common patterns of pathologic change observed in muscle disease and common and disease-specific histopathologic findings are presented, focusing on a select group of neuromuscular diseases.
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