Neuromuscular Imaging

✍ Scribed by Mike P. Wattjes (auth.), Mike P. Wattjes, Dirk Fischer (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 432
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Neuromuscular imaging has increasingly become an important tool in the detection and diagnosis of inherited and acquired neuromuscular disease. This book is a groundbreaking radiological and neurological overview of current methods and applications of imaging—including aspects of neuroimaging and musculoskeletal imaging—in patients with inherited, metabolic, and inflammatory muscle diseases. Imaging features are discussed in the context of clincial presentation, histopathology, therapeutic options and differential diagnosis. World leading expert contributors give a comprehensive and didactic review of neuromuscular disorders and available imaging modalities, each illustrated with numerous figures. Topics discussed include:

-Modalities such as ultrasound, CT and MRI

-Muscle anatomy and physiology

-Clinical applications in hereditary and acquired myopathies

-Clinical applications in motor neuron disorders and peripheral nerve imaging

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-3
Ultrasonography....Pages 5-22
Computed Tomography....Pages 23-26
Conventional Magnetic Resonance Imaging....Pages 27-34
Advanced and Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging Techniques....Pages 35-53
Nuclear Medicine Methods....Pages 55-61
Peripheral Nerve Imaging....Pages 63-68
Front Matter....Pages 69-69
Introduction....Pages 71-71
Morphology of Skeletal Muscle....Pages 73-80
Atlas of Topographical Muscle Anatomy....Pages 81-99
Normal Aging Muscle Tissue....Pages 101-107
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
Introduction....Pages 111-112
Skeletal Muscle Channelopathies....Pages 113-126
Metabolic Myopathies....Pages 127-146
Congenital Myopathies....Pages 147-176
Congenital Muscular Dystrophies....Pages 177-198
Dystrophinopathies....Pages 199-207
Emerinopathies and Laminopathies....Pages 209-226
Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophies....Pages 227-245
Myofibrillar Myopathies....Pages 247-265
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
Distal Myopathies....Pages 267-277
Myotonic Dystrophies....Pages 279-293
Facioscapulohumeral Dystrophy....Pages 295-304
Oculopharyngeal Muscular Dystrophy....Pages 305-311
Diagnostic Algorithms and Differential Diagnosis....Pages 313-318
Front Matter....Pages 319-319
Inflammatory Myopathies....Pages 321-333
Toxic and Drug-Induced Myopathies....Pages 335-348
Muscle Neoplasms....Pages 349-371
Front Matter....Pages 373-373
Motor Neuron Diseases....Pages 375-388
Imaging of the Peripheral Nerves: Clinical Applications and Diagnostic Relevance....Pages 389-411
Back Matter....Pages 413-424

✦ Subjects

Imaging / Radiology; Diagnostic Radiology; Neuroradiology; Neurology