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. 2020 Jun 17;15(6):e0232371. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0232371

Fig 1. SMI measurement at the level of the L3 lumbar vertebra.

Fig 1

A. The red area highlights the abdominal muscles in a female patient aged 84 years, highly sarcopenic (SMI = 21,1) who survived only 21 days from the first TAE B. The green area highlights the same muscles in a highly muscular male patient aged 60 years (SMI = 64,6, survival 45 months and alive at the end of the study).