Keywords:
Musculoskeletal system, Musculoskeletal soft tissue, MR, Diagnostic procedure, Tissue characterisation
Authors:
L. Conti, G. Lanni, S. Battisti, A. Conchiglia, A. Barile, C. Masciocchi; L'Aquila/IT
DOI:
10.1594/ecr2011/C-0671
Purpose
Inflammatory myopathies include a wide broad of skeletal muscles disorders which can be isolated when confined to a single muscle or to a group of muscles,
or diffuse,
when there is widespread involvement of multiple muscular units.
Clinical features are continuous muscular pain associated with contracture,
functional limitation and occasional symptoms such as numbness and tingling nerve and vegetative dysfunction.
Often,
the muscular initial alteration involves successively muscular fascia,
thus identifying myofascitis.
Muscular and musculofascial disorders can be idiopathic or secondary to other conditions.
In most cases a definitive diagnosis needs a biopsy.
The aim of our study is to evaluate the potentials of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) in diagnosis and in the follow-up of myofascitis.