Musculoskeletal ImagingNeuromuscular disorders
abnormal conditions involving the muscles and skeleton, which include or result in diverse entities such as
osteoporosis,
fractures, soft tissue atrophy and hypertrophy, growth disturbances, deformities, growth plate injuries, infections, heterotopic ossification,
cartilage atrophy,
synovitis,
clubbing, joint
capsule alterations, spondylopathy,
neuropathy and
neuropathic osteoarthropathy.
Some specific types of neuromuscular disorders are listed in Table 1.
Neuromuscular disorders, Table 1. Types of neuromuscular disorders.
| Peripheral neuropathies | |
| Mononeuropathies (e.g. entrapment neuropathies, plexus neuropathies) |
| Multiple mononeuropathies |
| Polyneuropathies |
| Hereditary neuropathies | |
| Friedreich's ataxia | |
| Muscular dystrophy | |
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