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. 2019 Feb 11;10:78. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2019.00078

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Muscle MRI in inflammatory myopathies. For each box, thighs are displayed on the left, legs on the right side; spin-echo T1-weighted images are on top, short-tau inversion recovery (STIR) images on the bottom. (A) Adult subject with polymyositis (PM), showing multifocal muscular edema involving both thigh and leg muscles and no selective pattern of fat replacement; (B) Adult subject with dermatomyositis (DM) showing characteristic multifocal perifascicular edema involving both thigh and leg muscles; (C) Adult subject with inclusion body myositis (IBM), with predominant fatty substitution of anterior thigh musculature and gemini muscles, associated to slight multifocal muscle edema. All presented MRI images have been collected during routine patient care.