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Lipid storage myopathy in 50-year-old patient

Clinical History: The 50-year-old patient was admitted for shortness of breath and acute muscle weakness following a viral illness. Laboratory…

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Cap myopathy

Clinical History: This 25-year-old patient presented with complaints of lower extremity muscle weakness. Their past medical history was significant for…

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Paraneoplastic dermatomyopathy

Clinical History This 65-year-old patient presented with bilateral symmetrical proximal upper and lower extremity muscle weakness, dysphagia and skin rash.…


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Adult Onset Pompe Disease/Acid Maltase Deficiency

Clinical History This patient presented with a several year history of muscle weakness. Muscle biopsy and genetic testing were performed.…

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Myopathy with Polyglucosan Bodies

Clinical History This 65-year-old patient with a history of severe osteoarthritis presented with muscle aches. Muscle biopsy was performed during…

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Mild Nonspecific Changes with Significant Genetic Finding

Clinical History This 30-year-old patient presented with complaints of severe exertional muscle stiffness and pain, and similar symptoms upon exposure…


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Segmental COX-Negative Fibers

Clinical History This 40-year-old female who presented with generalized muscle weakness, progressive ptosis and cognitive impairment. Question What of the…

Amyloid C5b-9
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Amyloid C5b-9

Clinical History: This 64-year-old patient presents with progressive distal bilateral upper and lower extremity numbness and pain. They also reported…

focal relatively circumscribed collection of mononuclear histiocytes with admixed chronic lymphoid inflammation
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Granulomatous Myopathy and Neuropathy

This 40-year-old patient presented with a three year history of slowly progressive generalized muscle weakness. More recently their hands and…


Polyglucosan bodies, Some of the muscle fibers in this image contain multiple refractile angular/rhomboid shaped well-circumscribed structures within the sarcoplasm
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Muscle Inclusions

This 50-year-old patient presented with complaints of progressive leg weakness and dysesthesia (burning sensation) in a sock and glove distribution.…

Tissue Gram stain, inflamed skeletal muscle
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Tissue Gram Stain

  This 50-year-old female presents with progressively worsening swelling and pain involving her left hip and buttock of four days…

Myopathy with Lobulated Muscle Fibers
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Acquired Etiologies of Myopathy with Lobulated Muscle Fibers

An elderly male patient presents with a chief complaint of dull achy pain. The patient relates that the pain is…

By Kelly Mrachek, MD

Fibrous Body, neuro path, arkana laboratories, Muscle biopsy
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Fibrous Body

A 75-year-old female patient presents with proximal muscle weakness, characteristic skin rash, and dysphagia. Laboratory workup reveals elevated CPK 3500.…

By Kelly Mrachek, MD