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Histopathological Basis of Muscle Imaging

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Muscle Imaging in Health and Disease

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The skeletal musculature, consisting of 434 single muscles, comprises approximately 25% to 35% of the total body weight in women and 40% to 50% in men,1 thus being the largest organ of the body. Every muscle has at least one belly. A few muscles, for example, the rectus abdominis, consist of more than one belly, separated by tendinous intersections. The muscle merges at either end with a tendon, aponeurosis, or the periosteum of the bone.

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  1. Department of Radiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 75235-9071, Dallas, TX, USA

    James L. Fleckenstein MD

  2. RadNet, Inc, 90025-3303, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    John V. Crues III MD

  3. Abteilung für Klinische Neurophysiologie, Universität Göttingen, 37075, Göttingen, Germany

    Carl D. Reimers MD

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Reimers, C.D., Fischer, P., Pongratz, D.E. (1996). Histopathological Basis of Muscle Imaging. In: Fleckenstein, J.L., Crues, J.V., Reimers, C.D. (eds) Muscle Imaging in Health and Disease. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2314-6_12

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