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© 2015 The Authors.Tubular aggregate myopathy is a genetically heterogeneous disease characterized by tubular aggregates as the hallmark on muscle biopsy. Mutations in STIM1 have recently been identified as one genetic cause in a number of tubular aggregate myopathy cases. To characterize the pattern of muscle involvement in this disease, upper and lower girdles and lower limbs were imaged in five patients with mutations in STIM1, and the scans were compared with two patients with tubular aggregate myopathy not caused by mutations in STIM1. A common pattern of involvement was found in STIM1-mutated patients, although with variable extent and severity of lesions. In the upper girdle, the subscapularis muscle was invariably affected. In the lower limbs, all the patients showed a consistent involvement of the flexor hallucis longus, which is very rarely affected in other muscle diseases, and a diffuse involvement of thigh and posterior leg with sparing of gracilis, tibialis anterior and, to a lesser extent, short head of biceps femoris. Mutations in STIM1 are associated with a homogeneous involvement on imaging despite variable clinical features. Muscle imaging can be useful in identifying STIM1-mutated patients especially among other forms of tubular aggregate myopathy.
Author(s): Tasca G, D'Amico A, Monforte M, Nadaj-Pakleza A, Vialle M, Fattori F, Vissing J, Ricci E, Bertini E
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Neuromuscular Disorders
Year: 2015
Volume: 25
Issue: 11
Pages: 898-903
Print publication date: 01/11/2015
Online publication date: 17/07/2015
Acceptance date: 13/07/2015
ISSN (print): 0960-8966
ISSN (electronic): 1873-2364
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nmd.2015.07.008
DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2015.07.008
PubMed id: 26255678
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