Abstracts tagged "muscle involvement"

Abstract Number: 0686 • ACR Convergence 2021
Is It Useful to Assess Muscle Involvement with Positron Emission Tomography in Patients with Idiopathic Inflammatory Myositis? A Case-Control Study
Murat Bektaş¹, Emine Göknur Işık², Fatih Kemik³, Emin Oğuz⁴, Anna ABBASGHOLI ZADEH⁵, Burak Ince⁶, Zeynep Gözde Özkan⁷, Yasemin Yalcinkaya⁸, Bahar Esen⁸, Ahmet Gül⁹ and Murat İnanç⁴, ¹Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, ²Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Department of Nuclear Medicine, İstanbul, Turkey, ³Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Department of Internal Medicine, İstanbul, Turkey, ⁴Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, İstanbul, Turkey, ⁵Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, İstanbul, Turkey, ⁶Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Division of Rheumatology, İstanbul, Turkey, ⁷Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁸Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁹Division of Rheumatology, Istanbul University Istanbul School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
Background/Purpose: Multiple diagnostic methods have been used to investigate muscle involvement in patients with idiopathic inflammatory myositis (IIM) such as electromyography (EMG) and muscle MRI.…