ReviewCurrent rheumatology reports2020
Diagnostic Value of Muscle Ultrasound for Myopathies and Myositis.
Review in Current rheumatology reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05692349 (Role of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Ultrasonography in Evaluation of Muscle Diseases), which is not on this map. Cited by 42 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Role of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Ultrasonography in Evaluation of Muscle Diseases
Who cites it
42 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 104 citations in OpenAlex.
- Muscle biopsy practices in the evaluation of neuromuscular disease: A systematic literature review.Neuropathology and applied neurobiology · 2023Pooled it
- Muscle Sonography in Inclusion Body Myositis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of 944 Measurements.Cells · 2022Pooled it
- Ultrasound Contrast between the Trapezius and Supraspinatus Muscles as a Potentially Specific Finding of Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy.Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) · 2026Article
- Use of nailfold capillaroscopy for evaluation of disease activity in juvenile dermatomyositis: Results of a two-center retrospective study.World journal of clinical pediatrics · 2026Article
- Myopathies in clinical care: a focus on treatable causes.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2026Review
- [Advances in ultrasound diagnostics in children with rheumatic diseases].Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie · 2026Review
- The Role of Imaging Techniques in the Evaluation of Extraglandular Manifestations in Patients with Sjögren's Syndrome.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Clinical Findings, Antibody Panel and Pathology of Patients with Inflammatory Myopathies in Isfahan Province, Iran.Advanced biomedical research · 2026Article
- Diagnostic performance of ultrasound for myositis and fasciitis, including necrotizing fasciitis, in pediatric patients.Journal of ultrasound · 2025Article
- Multimodal Evaluation of Bethlem Myopathy with the c.788G > A Variant in the COL6A1 Gene: a case report with genetic, ultrasonographic, and structural-functional discordance correlations.Acta myologica : myopathies and cardiomyopathies : official journal of the Mediterranean Society of Myology · 2025Article
- Plane wave compounding with adaptive joint coherence factor weighting.Ultrasonics · 2025Article
- Ultrasound evaluation of clinical mimics of deep vein thrombosis: essential insights for radiologists in interpretation.Ultrasonography (Seoul, Korea) · 2025Article
- [Vasculitic involvement of the skeletal muscle and the peripheral nervous system: clinical and neuropathologic perspective].Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie · 2025Review
- MGB-Unet: An Improved Multiscale Unet with Bottleneck Transformer for Myositis Segmentation from Ultrasound Images.Journal of imaging informatics in medicine · 2025Article
- Shear wave elastography as a marker of anisotropy in denervated muscle tissue.Clinical neurophysiology practice · 2025Article
- The value of quantitative muscle ultrasound in monitoring muscle and fascia inflammatory activity in juvenile dermatomyositis patients.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2024Article
- Can we differentiate patients with dysferlinopathies and inflammatory myopathies by ultrasound? A discriminant analysis study.Rheumatology international · 2024Observational
- [Sonography of muscles : Rheumatology-Neurology-Geriatrics-Sports medicine-Orthopedics].Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie · 2024Review
- Skeletal muscle as a pro- and anti-inflammatory tissue: insights from children to adults and ultrasound findings.Journal of ultrasound · 2024Review
- Muscular dystrophy patients show low exercise-induced blood flow in muscles with normal strength.Annals of clinical and translational neurology · 2024Article
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Abstract
purpose of reviewThe purpose of this review is to critically discuss the use of ultrasound in the evaluation of muscle disorders with a particular focus on the emerging use in inflammatory myopathies. RECENT
findingsIn myopathies, pathologic muscle shows an increase in echogenicity. Muscle echogenicity can be assessed visually, semi-quantitatively, or quantitatively using grayscale analysis. The involvement of specific muscle groups and the pattern of increase in echogenicity can further point to specific diseases. In pediatric neuromuscular disorders, the value of muscle ultrasound for screening and diagnosis is well-established. It has also been found to be a responsive measure of disease change in muscular dystrophies. In chronic forms of myositis like inclusion body myositis, ultrasound is very suitable for detecting markedly increased echogenicity and atrophy in affected muscles. Acute cases of muscle edema show only a mild increase in echogenicity, which can also reverse with successful treatment. Muscle ultrasound is an important imaging modality that is highly adaptable to study various muscle conditions. Although its diagnostic value for neuromuscular disorders is high, the evidence in myositis has only begun to accrue in earnest. Further systematic studies are needed, especially in its role for detecting muscle edema.
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