Musculoskeletal Imaging

Neuromuscular 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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