Ahmed Wafaie, Presenter: Nothing to Disclose

Hassan Kassem MD, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

Ahmed Aboumousa, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

1- To learn how to approach a reliable MR diagnosis (or even a short list of differential diagnosis) of inherited muscle diseases based on clinical signs and categorization 2- Suggested MR grading system to describe muscle invovement will be displayed as the diagnosis depends on selective involvement of certain muscles and sparing of others 3- To gain an awareness of the clinical categorization of inherited muscle diseases and different clinical signs that will reinforce the confidence in MR diagnosis 4- To display a wide variety of original- work cases    

- Introduction about inherited muscle diseases - The clinical categorization used as a frame for MR diagnosis (each has different group of diseases) which is: 1- Limb girdle muscle dystrophy with calf hypertrophy 2- Limb girdle muscle dystrophy with calf atrophy 3- Early onset myopathy 4- Myopathy with distinctive clinical manifestations - The MR examination protocol for thighs and legs - The MR grading system for muscle involvement to describe which muscles are affected more than others and which are spared - How to reach a reliable diagnosis based on the predescribed pattern of muscular involvement in literature for each disease under certain clinical category?

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Wafaie, A, Kassem, H, Aboumousa, A, Schematic Approach to MRI Diagnosis of Inherited Muscle Diseases Based on Clinical Signs and Categorization.  Radiological Society of North America 2014 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, - ,Chicago IL. http://archive.rsna.org/2014/14012006.html