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Human Vastus Lateralis Skeletal Muscle Biopsy Using the Weil-Blakesley Conchotome
Published on: March 4, 2016
Assessing the diagnostic performance of the muscle biopsy features in the 2024 ENMC Inclusion Body Myositis Criteria
Mustafa Ekici1,2,3, James B Lilleker4, Hector Chinoy1,2
1Department of Rheumatology, Salford Royal Hospital, Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Salford, United Kingdom.
Rheumatology (Oxford, England)
|May 11, 2026
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