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Rheumatology Advance Access originally published online on August 18, 2007
Rheumatology 2007 46(10):1617-1618; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kem211
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© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Rheumatology. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

The predictive value of creatine kinase, EMG and MRI in diagnosing muscle disease

C. M. Cardy and T. Potter1

Department of Rheumatology, The County Hospital, Hereford and 1Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital, Coventry, UK

Correspondence to: Dr C. M. Cardy, Department of Rheumatology, The County Hospital, Union Walk, Hereford HR1 2ER, UK. E-mail: carolinecardy@doctors.org.uk

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SIR, MRI is increasingly employed in the investigation of suspected neuromuscular disease. High signal intensity on fat-suppressed T2-weighted and short T1 inversion recovery (STIR) muscle MR images is found in inflammatory myositis [1]. MRI is sensitive for localizing non-homogeneous muscle abnormalities allowing biopsy to be targeted [2]. Previous studies have shown that non-targeted single site biopsy may lead to the diagnosis being missed in approximately one-third of cases [3].

Suspected muscle disease is a . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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