Postinfectious focal necrotizing myopathy

Clin Nucl Med. 2008 Jul;33(7):500-1. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e3181779324.

Abstract

A 37-year-old woman was admitted to our department with general fatigue, fever, and asymmetric pain in her lower legs, 2 weeks after a common cold. Dynamic skeletal scintigraphy with 780 MBq (20 mCi) Tc-99m HDP revealed increased perfusion and tracer uptake in the soft tissue of the lower legs, suggesting an inflammatory etiology. A muscle biopsy revealed a vasculitic necrotizing myopathy predominantly affecting the small vessels of the lower legs. We diagnosed it as a postinfectious immunologic reaction.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Biopsy
  • Common Cold / complications
  • Electromyography / methods
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Inflammation
  • Muscle, Skeletal / pathology
  • Muscular Diseases / diagnosis*
  • Muscular Diseases / diagnostic imaging*
  • Necrosis / diagnosis*
  • Necrosis / diagnostic imaging*
  • Radionuclide Imaging / methods*
  • Radiopharmaceuticals*
  • Technetium Tc 99m Medronate / analogs & derivatives*
  • Time Factors

Substances

  • Radiopharmaceuticals
  • technetium Tc 99m hydroxymethylene diphosphonate
  • Technetium Tc 99m Medronate