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Preparation and Respirometric Assessment of Mitochondria Isolated from Skeletal Muscle Tissue Obtained by Percutaneous Needle Biopsy
Published on: February 7, 2015
Conchotome and needle percutaneous biopsy of skeletal muscle
P Dietrichson1, J Coakley, P E Smith
1Muscle Research Centre, University Department of Medicine, Royal Liverpool Hospital, UK.
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry
|November 1, 1987
Abstract:
Percutaneous muscle biopsy is an important and acceptable technique in the study of conditions involving human skeletal muscle. A review of 436 conchotome and needle muscle biopsies obtained over 18 months in this centre is presented.

