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Juvenile idiopathic inflammatory myopathy: exercise-induced changes in muscle at short inversion time inversion-recovery MR imaging.

DOI

45

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0

References

1998

Year

Ronald M. Summers, Alyssa Brune, P L Choyke, Catherine K. Chow, N J Patronas, Frederick W. Miller, Patience H. White, James D. Malley, Lisa G. Rider
Radiology

Abstract

In patients with juvenile idiopathic inflammatory myopathy, stair-stepping exercise induces signal intensity changes on STIR MR studies of muscle for approximately 30 minutes after exercise, in a distribution that may mimic active muscle inflammation.