Muscle Pathology         

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General Information:

• How to work up a muscle biopsy

Classification of Myopathies:  

• By Pathology
• By Etiology

Differential Diagnosis:   

• Pediatric Myopathies
• Severe Infantile Weakness and Hypotonia
• Myopathies with Inflammatory Cell   
• Intracytoplasmic Inclusion Bodies
• Cardioskeletal Myopathies
• Adult Onset Myopathies with Respiratory Failure at the Early Course of Disease
• Dermatomyositis versus Polymyositis

Individual Pathologic Entity:

• Alcoholic myopathy
• Central Core Myopathy
• Congenital Fiber Type Disproportion
• Congenital Muscular Dystrophy- Merosin Deficient Type
• Dermatoyositis, juvenile
• Dystrophinopathies (Duchenne and Becker Muscular Dystrophy)
• Fukuyama congenital muscular dystrophy
• Facioscapulohumeral Dystrophy (Landouzy-Déjerine Dystrophy)
• Glycogenoses and Glycogen Storage Diseases, General Aspects
• Glycogenosis type II and Pompe’s disease
• Glycogenosis type III (Cori-Forbes disease)
• Glycogenosis type IV (Andersen's disease)
• Glycogenosis type V (McArdle disease)
• Glycogenosis type VII (Tarui’s disease)
• Glycogenosis type VIII
• HIV Associated Myoapthies
• Hyaline Body Myoapthy
• Inclusion Body Myopathies
• Inclusion Body Myositis (IBM)
• Myoadenylate Deaminase Deficiency (AMPD)
• Myofibrillary myopathy associated with desmin accumulation (Desminopathy)
• Myotonic Dystrophy, Adult Type
• Myotonic Dystrophy, Congenital Type
• Myotubular (Centonuclear) Myopathy
• Nemaline Myopathy
• Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy
• Localized Nodular Myositis/ Focal Myositis
• Reducing Body Myopathy
• Rhabdomyolysis, General
• Steroid Myopathy, Acute
• X-Linked Vacuolar Myopathy with Excessive Autophagic Vacuoles