(expressing can be de- or increased) After the local anaesthesia a small slash is made to the skin which through the sample is taken with a biopsy needle ... the examinee has to avoid a heavy muscle ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have identified a subgroup of patients with necrotizing myopathy who have a novel autoantibody specificity that makes them potential ...

The clinical diagnosis of sIBM is confirmed by muscle biopsy, and is aided by electromyography (EMG) and determination of serum muscle enzyme levels. Creatine kinase levels can initially be ...