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Muscle imaging in neuromuscular disease using computerized real-time sonography
A Q Fischer1, D W Carpenter, P L Hartlage
1Department of Neurology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta 30912.
Muscle & Nerve
|March 1, 1988
Abstract:
The results of a study utilizing computerized real-time sonography (CRS) to image muscles in patients with neuromuscular disease are presented for 67 patients, 37 with neuromuscular disease and 4 with upper motor neuron disease, and 26 age-matched healthy controls between the ages of 2 days and 59 years. CRS is a safe, noninvasive, atraumatic method for evaluating a broad range of neuromuscular diseases. It is capable of differentiating myopathies or dystrophies from neurogenic atrophies and floppy infants with "central" hypotonia from those with neuromuscular diseases.