• Muscle & nerve · Feb 2015

    Case Reports

    Electromyographic diagnosis of multifocal pyomyositis.

    • Yonatan S Spolter, Bashar Katirji, and David C Preston.
    • Department of Neurology and the Neurological Institute, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, 11100 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, 44122, USA.
    • Muscle Nerve. 2015 Feb 1; 51 (2): 293-6.

    IntroductionMultifocal pyomyositis is a rare inflammatory myopathy caused by bacterial infection and abscess formation in multiple skeletal muscles. To date, electromyography (EMG) of pyomyositis has not been reported.MethodsWe describe the EMG findings of a patient with pathologically proven multifocal pyomyositis.Results And ConclusionsMuscles affected by pyomyositis demonstrate EMG features similar to those of other inflammatory myopathies. Other features such as acute entrapment neuropathy may exist concomitantly due to nerve compression from muscle abscess formation.© 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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