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[[Image:Vasculitic neuropathy - plastics - low mag.jpg|thumb|right|[[Micrograph]] of a nerve biopsy. [[Toluidine blue stain]].]]
'''Neuromuscular pathology''' is the study of muscle and neurologic disease associated with muscle dysfunction.  It is a part of [[neuropathology]].   
'''Neuromuscular pathology''' is the study of muscle and neurologic disease associated with muscle dysfunction.  It is a part of [[neuropathology]].   


Muscle pathology is dealt together with neurologic disease as, at the presentation, they are not infrequently impossible to definitely distinguish.
Muscle pathology is dealt together with neurologic disease as, at the presentation, they are not infrequently impossible to definitely distinguish.


==Work-up==
=Work-up=
===General===
===General===
#Clinical history, including family history.
#Clinical history, including family history.
#Laboratory studies, e.g. CK.
#Laboratory studies, e.g. CK.
#Nerve conduction and electromyography studies.
#Nerve conduction and electromyography studies.
#Muscle biopsy.
#Muscle / nerve biopsy.


===Clinical===
===Clinical===
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**Women: 24-170 units/litre.
**Women: 24-170 units/litre.


==Muscle structure/histology==
===Biopsy===
===Macro to micro===
====Muscle biopsies====
Indications:
* Weakness, Fatigue, Cramps
* Myopathic EMG
* Elevated CK
Not indicated: Myasthenia gravis, myotonia
 
* MRI to select ideal spots for biopsy.
* In chronic diseases, select a '''moderately''' affected muscle.
** Best specific muscles: Deltoid, Biceps, Quadriceps.
** Avoid areas with previous EMG analysis.
 
* Tissue should be sent fresh or frozen for analysis.
** Freeze most tissue in isopentane (-160°C) immersed in liquid nitrogen.
** Ultrastructural analyis might be required in some cases -> save something in 4% glutaraldehyde.
* [[FFPE]] specimens unsuitable for enzymatic stains.
** Useful for morphology of inflammatory cells.
 
====Nerve biopsies====
* Nerve procession: 3 pieces
** Frozen -> useful for acid phosphatase, congo etc..
** Formalin -> for IHC.
** 4% Glutaraldehyde fixed -> for electron microscopy.
 
====Skin biopsies====
* Punch biopsies (3mm) for small fiber neuropathy.
** Paraformaldehyde-lysine-periodate -> for PGP9.5 immunofluorescence.
 
=Muscle structure/histology=
===Macroscopic to microscopic===
Organization:<ref>URL: [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skeletal_muscle.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skeletal_muscle.jpg]. Accessed on: 25 October 2010.</ref>
Organization:<ref>URL: [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skeletal_muscle.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skeletal_muscle.jpg]. Accessed on: 25 October 2010.</ref>
*Muscle - surrounded by epimysium.
*Muscle - surrounded by epimysium.
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**Nerve (surrounded by ''epineurium'') -> Fascicle (surrounded by ''perineurium'') -> Nerve fibre (surrounded by ''endoneurium'').
**Nerve (surrounded by ''epineurium'') -> Fascicle (surrounded by ''perineurium'') -> Nerve fibre (surrounded by ''endoneurium'').


===Fibre types===
===Fibre===
[[File:1022 Muscle Fibers (small).jpg|500px|right]]
====Fibre morphology====
*Small or large?
**Related to age?  Birth 15µm, 6yrs: 25-30µm, 12yrs: 45µm, adult: 50-60µm.
*Round or angular?
*Architecture: Normal, inclusions, nuclear internalization?
*Pathology distribution: Absent, focal, uniform?
**Pathologic material: Amyloid, Glycogen, Lipid?
====Fibre types====
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====List====
Type 1 - [[AKA]] slow twitch:
Type 1 - [[AKA]] slow twitch:
*Predominantly oxidative metabolism, i.e. have lots of mitochondria.
*Predominantly oxidative metabolism, i.e. have lots of mitochondria.
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*Predominantly glycolytic metabolism.
*Predominantly glycolytic metabolism.


Mnemonic ''Slow red fat ox'': '''Slow''' twitch fibres are (grossly) more '''red''' (due to mitochondria),  
Mnemonic for type I fibres ''slow fat red ox'':  
lipid rich ('''fat''') and primarily have '''oxidative''' metabolism.
*'''Slow''' twitch fibres are lipid rich ('''fat'''), (grossly) more '''red''' (due to mitochondria) and primarily have '''oxidative''' metabolism.
 
====Table - fibre types====
<center>
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Parameter
! Type I
! Type II
|-
| Twitch speed
| slow
| fast
|-
| Colour
| red
| white
|-
| Fat content
| higher
| lower
|-
| ATP production
| oxidative
| anaerobic <br>glycoloysis
|-
| Glycogen
| higher
| lower
|-
| Resistance to fatigue
| higher
| lower
|-
| ATPase quality
| lower
| higher
|-
| Myoglobin
| higher
| lower
|-
| Mitochondria
| higher
| lower
|-
| ATPase pH 9.4 stain
| light brown
| dark brown
|}
 
</center>
 
*Check for fibre type grouping or fibre type predominance.


===Normal findings===
===Normal findings===
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*Ragged red fibres = mitochondrial pathology.
*Ragged red fibres = mitochondrial pathology.
**Image: [http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/jty1/NeuroTest/Q71-Ans.htm Ragged red fibres (ouhsc.edu)].
**Image: [http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/jty1/NeuroTest/Q71-Ans.htm Ragged red fibres (ouhsc.edu)].
*Rimmed vacuoles = inclusion body myositis.
*Vacuoles
*PAS +++ = glycogen storage disease.
**Acid maltase positive = lysosomal vacuoles.
*Regenerative fibres = large nuclei, basophilic cytoplasm (incr. protein synthesis, incr. RNA).
**Rimmed vacuoles = [[inclusion body myositis]].
**Freezing artifacts (clear).
*PAS +++ = [[glycogen storage disease]].
*Nemaline rods = [[nemaline myopathy]]
**Image: [http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Biopsy nemaline myopathy gomori.jpg]
*Cores - central pale area along length of fibres in NADH stain = central core disease.
**Image: [http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Central core disease NADH stain.jpg].


Others:
Others:
*Target fibre - "hole in middle of myofibres" = neurogenic. (???)
*Annular myofibrils ("ringbinden") = myopathic: Regeneration, myotonic dystrophy, tenotomy. Found in approx. 3% of unselected cases.
*Cores - central pale area along length of fibres = myopathic. (???)
Images: [http://frontalcortex.com/?page=image&topic=1&qid=987] - HE, NADH or MAD stains are useful.
**Image: [http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/jty1/Composites/FNN0IE08-core-NADHb.htm Cores (ouhsc.edu)].
*Target fibre - "hole in middle of myofibres" = neurogenic.
**Images: [http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Denervation_atrophy_-_very_high_mag.jpg Target fibres - very high mag. (WC)], [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Denervation_atrophy_-_sdh_-_very_high_mag.jpg Target fibres - SDH stain - very high mag. (WC)].
*Regenerative fibres = large nuclei, basophilic cytoplasm (incr. protein synthesis, incr. RNA).


===Approach===
===Approach===
General:
General:
#Size variation - in groups (neurogenic) vs. singular (myogenic).  
*Neurogenic or myopathic?
*Acute or chronic?
Check:
#Size variation - in groups (neurogenic, Dystrophinopathies) vs. singular scattered (myogenic, acute neurogenic).  
#Shape - angulated (neurogenic) vs. round (myogenic).
#Shape - angulated (neurogenic) vs. round (myogenic).
#Position of nuclei - peripheral (normal); central (myogenic; centronuclear myopathy<ref>URL: [http://www.igbmc.fr/recherche/Dep_NG/Eq_JLaporte/JL3.html http://www.igbmc.fr/recherche/Dep_NG/Eq_JLaporte/JL3.html]. Accessed on: 26 October 2010.</ref>).
#Position of nuclei - peripheral (normal); central (myogenic; centronuclear myopathy<ref>URL: [http://www.igbmc.fr/recherche/Dep_NG/Eq_JLaporte/JL3.html http://www.igbmc.fr/recherche/Dep_NG/Eq_JLaporte/JL3.html]. Accessed on: 26 October 2010.</ref>).
#Necrosis - suggests myogenic.
#[[Necrosis]] & regeneration - suggests acute myogenic.
#Fibrosis - suggests myogenic.
#Fibrosis - suggests chronic myogenic.
#Inflammation - suggest myogenic vs. systemic inflammatory.
#Inflammation - suggest myogenic vs. systemic inflammatory.
#*Lymphocytes, macrophages, eosinophils - or even neoplastic?
#Fibre type predominance - suggest congenital myopathy (esp. in small type 1 fibres), demyelinating neuropathy.
Other:
Other:
#Obvious abnormality vs. minimal change.
#Obvious abnormality vs. minimal change.
#Diffuse vs. focal change.
#Diffuse vs. focal change.
#Pathology in adjacent vessels or connective tissue.


==Processing of muscle biopsies==
==Processing of muscle biopsies==
#Formulin fixed (formulin fixed-paraffin embedded).
#[[Formalin]] fixed (formalin fixed-paraffin embedded).
#Frozen tissue for histology.
#Frozen tissue for histology.
#Frozen tissue for biochemistry.
#Frozen tissue for biochemistry.
#Fragment for electronmicroscopy (glutaraldehyde fixed).
#Fragment for [[electron microscopy]] (glutaraldehyde fixed).


===SMH labeling===
===SMH labeling===
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*Groups of small fibres.
*Groups of small fibres.
*Apparent increase of nuclei.
*Apparent increase of nuclei.
<gallery>
File:Neurogenic atrophy muscle biopsy HE x100.jpg | Groups of atrophic fibers (HE)
File:Muscle angular atrophic fibers.jpg | Angulated atrophic fibers (HE)
File:ATPase targetoid fibers neurogenic muscle atrophy.jpg | Fiber type grouping and targetoid fibers in neurogenic atrophy (ATPase)
File:Denervation atrophy - very high mag.jpg | Type 2 fiber atrophy (HE)
File:Denervation atrophy - atp94 - high mag.jpg | Type 2 fiber atrophy (ATPase)
</gallery>


Myogenic:
Myogenic:
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*+/-Intense (darker) cytoplasm.
*+/-Intense (darker) cytoplasm.
*+/-Fibrosis (between fibres).
*+/-Fibrosis (between fibres).
*+/-Nuclear internalization.
*+/-Necrosis.
*+/-Necrosis.
<gallery>
File:BMD histology.jpg | Basophilic fibers and nuclear internalization in muscular dystropy (HE).
</gallery>


===Detail===
===Detail===
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#Myopathy - something is wrong with the muscle fibres.
#Myopathy - something is wrong with the muscle fibres.


==Stains for muscle biopsies==
=Stains for muscle biopsies=
===Standard===
===Standard===
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
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|-
|-
| H&E stain
| H&E stain
| routine
| routine, fibre size, shape, nuclei
| [http://www.rvc.ac.uk/Research/Labs/NeuroLab/images/HE.jpg]<ref>URL: [http://www.rvc.ac.uk/Research/Labs/NeuroLab/MuscleBiopsy.cfm http://www.rvc.ac.uk/Research/Labs/NeuroLab/MuscleBiopsy.cfm]. Accessed on: 26 October 2010.</ref>
| [http://www.rvc.ac.uk/Research/Labs/NeuroLab/images/HE.jpg H&E]<ref>URL: [http://www.rvc.ac.uk/Research/Labs/NeuroLab/MuscleBiopsy.cfm http://www.rvc.ac.uk/Research/Labs/NeuroLab/MuscleBiopsy.cfm]. Accessed on: 26 October 2010.</ref>, [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Denervation_atrophy_-_very_high_mag.jpg H&E (WC)]
|-
|-
| Gomori trichrome
| Gomori trichrome
| good for nemaline rods, <br>mitochondrial pathology<br>(ragged red fibres - at edge <br>of myocyte)
| good for nemaline rods, <br>mitochondrial pathology<br>(ragged red fibres - at edge <br>of myocyte)
| [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Modified_Gomori_trichrome_stain_showing_several_ragged_red_fibers_.jpg]
| [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Modified_Gomori_trichrome_stain_showing_several_ragged_red_fibers_.jpg RRF (WC)]
|-
|-
| PAS
| PAS
| glycogen storage disorders
| glycogen storage disorders
| [http://neuromuscular.wustl.edu/pics/biopsy/dm/dermatopas.jpg]<ref>URL: [http://neuromuscular.wustl.edu/pathol/dermmyo.htm http://neuromuscular.wustl.edu/pathol/dermmyo.htm]. Accessed on: 26 October 2010.</ref>
| [http://neuromuscular.wustl.edu/pics/biopsy/dm/dermatopas.jpg]<ref name=dermmyo>URL: [http://neuromuscular.wustl.edu/pathol/dermmyo.htm http://neuromuscular.wustl.edu/pathol/dermmyo.htm]. Accessed on: 26 October 2010.</ref>
|-
|-
| Congo red  
| Congo red  
| find [[amyloid]]; seen in<br>inclusion body myositis
| find [[amyloid]]; seen in<br>inclusion body myositis
| [http://neuromuscular.wustl.edu/pics/biopsy/lgd/ibmpaget/hppagetibmvaccr2.jpg]<ref>URL: [http://neuromuscular.wustl.edu/pathol/ibmpaget.htm http://neuromuscular.wustl.edu/pathol/ibmpaget.htm]. Accessed on: 26 October 2010.</ref>
| [http://neuromuscular.wustl.edu/pics/biopsy/lgd/ibmpaget/hppagetibmvaccr2.jpg]<ref name=ibmpaget>URL: [http://neuromuscular.wustl.edu/pathol/ibmpaget.htm http://neuromuscular.wustl.edu/pathol/ibmpaget.htm]. Accessed on: 26 October 2010.</ref>
|-
|-
| Oil red O  
| Oil red O  
| lipid more in<br> type 1 fibres
| lipid more in<br> type 1 fibres
|
| [http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/jty1/Composites/FNEWWU10-lipid-storage.htm ORO]
|-
|-
| ATPase pH4.2<br>ATPase pH9.4
| ATPase pH4.2<br>ATPase pH9.4
| should have "checkerboard <br>pattern" in normal; see table below
| should have "checkerboard <br>pattern" in normal; see table below
| [http://neuromuscular.wustl.edu/pics/biopsy/dm/dermatopfatp94.jpg]<ref>URL: [http://neuromuscular.wustl.edu/pathol/dermmyo.htm http://neuromuscular.wustl.edu/pathol/dermmyo.htm]. Accessed on: 26 October 2010.</ref>
| [http://neuromuscular.wustl.edu/pics/biopsy/dm/dermatopfatp94.jpg]<ref name=dermmyo>URL: [http://neuromuscular.wustl.edu/pathol/dermmyo.htm http://neuromuscular.wustl.edu/pathol/dermmyo.htm]. Accessed on: 26 October 2010.</ref>
|-
|-
| NADH-TR  
| NADH-TR  
| should have "checkerboard <br>pattern" in normal; <br>type 1 fibres = light blue, <br>type 2 fibres = white
| good for cores or tubular aggregates, should have "checkerboard <br>pattern" in normal; <br>type 1 fibres = light blue, <br>type 2 fibres = white
|  
| [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cell_sample_of_muscle_tissue_with_central_core_disease_(stained_for_contrast).jpg]
|-
| Myoadenylate deaminase
| Normal: positive, AMPDA deficiency: negative
| [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MAD_deficiency_enzymatic.jpg MAD deficiency]
|-
| Acid phosphatase
| Histiocytes/Macrophages, Lysosomal storage, Lipofuscin
|
|-
| Cytochrome oxidase
| Mitochondrial pathology
| [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cox-deficient_fibers_in_mitochondrial_myopathy.jpg COX deficiency]
|}
|}


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| '''Image'''
| '''Image'''
|-
|-
|Succinate <br>dehydrogenase (SDH)
|[[Succinate dehydrogenase|Succinate <br>dehydrogenase (SDH)]]
|
| stains mitochondria; <br>usu. +ve in mitochondrial disease<ref>URL: [http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/jty1/neurohelp/ZNEWWU10.htm http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/jty1/neurohelp/ZNEWWU10.htm]. Accessed on: 2 March 2011.</ref>
| [http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/JTY1/Com04/Com04Image/Com401-3-03.gif]<ref name=ouhsc1>URL: [http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/JTY1/Com04/Com401-3-Diss.htm http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/JTY1/Com04/Com401-3-Diss.htm]. Accessed on: 28 October 2010.</ref>
| [http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/JTY1/Com04/Com04Image/Com401-3-03.gif]<ref name=ouhsc1>URL: [http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/JTY1/Com04/Com401-3-Diss.htm http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/JTY1/Com04/Com401-3-Diss.htm]. Accessed on: 28 October 2010.</ref>, [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Denervation_atrophy_-_sdh_-_high_mag.jpg SDH (WC)]
|-
|-
|COX
| Cytochrome oxidase (COX)
|
| stains mitochondria; <br>usu. -ve in mitochondrial disease
| [http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/JTY1/Com04/Com04Image/Com401-3-09.gif]<ref name=ouhsc1>URL: [http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/JTY1/Com04/Com401-3-Diss.htm http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/JTY1/Com04/Com401-3-Diss.htm]. Accessed on: 28 October 2010.</ref>
| [http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/JTY1/Com04/Com04Image/Com401-3-09.gif]<ref name=ouhsc1>URL: [http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/JTY1/Com04/Com401-3-Diss.htm http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/JTY1/Com04/Com401-3-Diss.htm]. Accessed on: 28 October 2010.</ref>
|-
|-
|COX-SDH
|COX-SDH
|
| used to look for mitochondrial disease
|
|
|}
|}


===Enzymatic/genetic stuff===
===Enzymatic/genetic stuff===
*Phosphorylase.
{| class="wikitable"
*Adenylate deaminase.
| '''Stain'''
*Acid phosphatase.
| '''Comment'''
*Alkaline phosphatase.
| '''Image'''
|-
| Phosphorylase
|
|
|-
| Adenylate deaminase
|
|
|-
| Acid phosphatase (ACPH)
| necrosis (red)
|
|-
| Alkaline phosphatase (ALPH)
| regeneration (punctate - black)
|
|}


Dunno:
Dunno:
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===IHC===
===IHC===
*Dystrophy panel.
*Dystrophy panel.
**Dystrophin<ref>URL: [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/omim/310200 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/omim/310200]. Accessed on: 29 October 2010.</ref> - Duchenne muscular dystrophy (onset <3 years), Becker's muscular dystrophy (onset 20s or 30s).
**Dystrophin<ref name=omim310200>{{OMIM|310200}}</ref> - Duchenne muscular dystrophy (onset usu. <3 years), Becker's muscular dystrophy (onset usu. 20s or 30s).
***Membranous staining is normal.  Loss of membranous staining = pathologic.
****Tested with three antibodies -- as the protein is hueuge.
**Spectrin - a cause of long QT syndrome. (???)
**Spectrin - a cause of long QT syndrome. (???)
*Lymphocytic markers (CD45, CD3, CD4, CD8, CD20).
*Lymphocytic markers (CD45, CD3, CD4, CD8, CD20).
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*Ubquitin - inclusion body myositis.
*Ubquitin - inclusion body myositis.


*TDP43 - cytoplasmic staining in IBM.
*TDP-43 (also ''TDP43'') - cytoplasmic staining in IBM.
**Normally stain the nucleus.
**Normally stains the nucleus.
 
***Same protein that that in implicated in [[ALS]] and [[frontotemporal dementia]].
==Inflammatory myopathy==
DDx:
#Polymyositis.
#Inclusion body myositis (IBM).
#Dermatomyositis.
 
===Partial invasion of muscle fibres===
DDx:<ref name=inflam_wustledu>URL: [http://neuromuscular.wustl.edu/pathol/inflammation.htm#cellinv http://neuromuscular.wustl.edu/pathol/inflammation.htm#cellinv]. Accessed on: 3 November 2010.</ref>
*IBM.
*Polymyositis.


Images:
=List of common conditions=
*[http://neuromuscular.wustl.edu/pathol/inflammation.htm#cellinv Partial invasion of muscle fibres (wustl.edu)].<ref name=inflam_wustledu>URL: [http://neuromuscular.wustl.edu/pathol/inflammation.htm#cellinv http://neuromuscular.wustl.edu/pathol/inflammation.htm#cellinv]. Accessed on: 3 November 2010.</ref>
 
==DDx==
Neurogenic:
Neurogenic:
*Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
*[[Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis]].
*Spinal muscular atrophy.  
*Spinal muscular atrophy.  
*Trauma.
*Trauma.
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Myopathic:
Myopathic:
*Inflammatory:
*Inflammatory:
*#Polymyositis.
*#[[Polymyositis]].
*#Inclusion body myositis.
*#[[Inclusion body myositis]].
*#Dermatomyositis.
*#[[Dermatomyositis]].
*Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
*Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
*Becker muscular dystrophy.
*Becker muscular dystrophy.
*Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy.
*[[Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy]].
*Myotonic dystrophy.
*[[Myotonic dystrophy]].
*Metabolic - glycogen storage disease.
*Metabolic - [[glycogen storage disease]].


Other:
Other:
*Myasthenia gravis.
*Myasthenia gravis.
*Mitochondrial myopathy.
*[[Mitochondrial myopathy]].
*Congenital fibre type disproportion.
*Congenital fibre type disproportion.
*Periodic paralysis.
*Periodic paralysis.


=Groups of disorders=
==Inflammatory myopathy==
DDx:
#[[Polymyositis]].
#*Disease of adults.
#[[Inclusion body myositis]] (IBM).
#*Distal weakness.
#*Can be sporadic or hereditary.
#[[Dermatomyositis]].
#*Acute development.
#*May be associated with malignancy.
#[[Granulomatous myositis]].
#Graft-versus-host disease.
#Infectious myositis.
#*Rare.
'''Quick overview:'''
{| class="wikitable"
|
| '''Dermatomyositis'''
| '''Polymyositis'''
| '''sporadic Inclusion body myositis
|-
| Myositis type
| Perifascicular
| Diffuse
| Diffuse (limited inflammation)
|-
| Histology
| Perivascular inflammation, Perifascicular damage.
| Endomysial inflammation and damage.
| Endomysial inflammation, rimmed vacuoles withe eosinophilic inclusions, neurogenic changes.
|-
| Immunostaining
| CD4+ B-cell lymphocytes predominate, C5b9 complement complex deposits in capillaries.
| CD8+ lymphocytes invading non-necrotic fibers.
| Mainly CD8-positive lymphocytes.
|-
| Electron microscopy
| Tubulovesicular inclusions.
| Nothing special.
| Filamentous inclusions.
|-
| Exemplary image
|[[File:Dermatomyositis_muscle_biopsy_HE.jpg | center | thumb]]
|[[File:Polymyositis_muscle_biopsy_HE.jpg | center | thumb]]
|[[File:IBM rimmed vacuoles HE x200.jpg | center | thumb]]
|}
===Partial invasion of muscle fibres===
DDx:<ref name=inflam_wustledu>URL: [http://neuromuscular.wustl.edu/pathol/inflammation.htm#cellinv http://neuromuscular.wustl.edu/pathol/inflammation.htm#cellinv]. Accessed on: 3 November 2010.</ref>
*[[Polymyositis]].
*[[Inclusion body myositis]] (IBM).
Images:
*[http://neuromuscular.wustl.edu/pathol/inflammation.htm#cellinv Partial invasion of muscle fibres (wustl.edu)].<ref name=inflam_wustledu>URL: [http://neuromuscular.wustl.edu/pathol/inflammation.htm#cellinv http://neuromuscular.wustl.edu/pathol/inflammation.htm#cellinv]. Accessed on: 3 November 2010.</ref>
==Muscular dystrophy==
===General===
*DDx: large.
A short DDx:
*Duchenne's muscular dystrophy.<ref name=omim310200>{{OMIM|310200}}</ref>
*Becker's muscular dystrophy.
*Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy.
**Lotsa different mutations, autosomal dominant and recessive variants.
*Myotonic dystrophy.<ref name=omim160900>{{OMIM|160900}}</ref><ref name=omim602668>{{OMIM|602668}}</ref>
===Microscopic===
Features:
*Endomysial fibrosis.
*Hypercontracted fibres (large muscle fibres).
<gallery>
File:BMD histology.jpg | Becker's muscular dystrophy ([[H&E]))
File:Dys1 Dystrophinopathy carrier.jpg | Carrier status in dystrophinophathy (Dystrophin)
</gallery>
Images:
*[http://path.upmc.edu/cases/case161.html Becker muscular dystrophy (upmc.edu)].
*[http://path.upmc.edu/cases/case234/micro.html Myotonic dystrophy - several images (upmc.edu)].
==Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy==
===General===
*A group of muscular dystrophies with childhood or adult onset.<ref>URL: [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK1408/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK1408/]. Accessed on: 25 November 2010.</ref>
*Rare.
*Usually autosomal recessive.
*Treatment: none; supportive only.
===Subtypes===
*Sarcoglycanopathy.
*Calpainopahty.
*Dysferlinopathy.
Notes:
*Can be demonstrated with [[IHC]].
===DDx===
*DMD gene associated MDs (Duchenne MD, Becker MD).
*Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD).
*Emery-Dreifuss MD (EDMD).
*Congenital MD (CMD).
*Inflammatory myopathies.
<gallery>
File:LGMD2D alpha sarcoglycan.jpg | Loss of alpha sarcocglycan in LGMD2D (WC).
</gallery>
==Mitochondrial disorders==
===General===
*Onset childhood to adulthood.
*Heteroplasmy - variable distribution of badness within affected individuals.
**Leads to "threshold effect".
===Microscopic===
*Trichrome most useful - find the ragged red fibres - usu. at the cell periphery.
*COX-SDH:
**Non-staining (???).
**Peripheral blue accumulation in occasional cells.
===EM===
Features:
*Crystalloid inclusions.<ref>URL: [http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/jty1/neurotest/Q09-Ans.htm http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/jty1/neurotest/Q09-Ans.htm]. Accessed on: 26 October 2010.</ref>
*"Ballooned" mitochondria; loss of cristae -- loss of membranous folds within mitochrondrion.
<gallery>
File:Ragged red fibres - gtc - very high mag.jpg | ragged red fibers (Gomöri Trichrom)
Cox-deficient_fibers_in_mitochondrial_myopathy.jpg | Cox-deficient fibers (blue) in mitochondrial myopathy (COX-SDH stain)
File:Mitochondrial_myopathy_crystalline_inclusions.jpg | Crystalline inclusions in the mitochondria (Electron microscopy)
</gallery>
==Type 2 fibre atrophy==
===General===
DDx:
*Disuse.
*Space travel.
*Steroids.
*Others.
===Microscopic===
Features:
*Atrophy for type 2 atrophy.
====Images====
<gallery>
Image:Denervation_atrophy_-_high_mag.jpg | Denervation atrophy - high mag. (WC)
Image:Denervation_atrophy_-_atp94_-_intermed_mag.jpg | Type 2 fibre atrophy - ATPase pH 9.4 - intermed. mag. (WC)
Image:Denervation_atrophy_-_atp94_-_high_mag.jpg | Type 2 fibre atrophy - ATPase pH 9.4 - high mag. (WC)
</gallery>
=Specific entities=
==Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis==
==Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis==
{{Main|Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis}}
*Abbreviated ''ALS''.
===General===
===General===
*Abbreviated ''ALS''.
*Abbreviated ''ALS''.
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==Dermatomyositis==
==Dermatomyositis==
:''For the skin manifestations see: [[Inflammatory_skin_disorders#Dermatomyositis]]''.
===General===
===General===
*Complement mediated disease - membrane attack complex.
*Complement mediated disease - membrane attack complex.
*Usually middle age.  
*Usually middle age.  
*Associated skin rash is common.
*Associated skin rash is common.
**May precede or follow muscle pathology.
*Associated with malignancy in approximately 10% of cases.<ref name=pmid20398365>{{cite journal |author=Chen YJ, Wu CY, Huang YL, Wang CB, Shen JL, Chang YT |title=Cancer risks of dermatomyositis and polymyositis: a nationwide cohort study in Taiwan |journal=Arthritis Res. Ther. |volume=12 |issue=2 |pages=R70 |year=2010 |pmid=20398365 |pmc=2888225 |doi=10.1186/ar2987 |url=}}</ref>


====Clinical====
====Clinical====
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*Loss of vessels around muscle fibres.
*Loss of vessels around muscle fibres.
**Vessels should be where more than 3 or more fibres are opposed to one another.
**Vessels should be where more than 3 or more fibres are opposed to one another.
====Images====
<gallery>
Image:Dermatomyositis_-_intermed_mag.jpg | Dermatomyositis - intermed. mag. (WC)
Image:Dermatomyositis_-_high_mag.jpg | Dermatomyositis - high mag. (WC)
File:Dermatomyositis HE x40.jpg | Dermatomyositis - low mag. (WC)
File:NP MGMT 0252.jpg | Dermatomyostits (WC/jensflorian)
File:Dermatomyositis c5b9.jpg | C5b9 complex deposits in dermatomyositis (WC)
</gallery>


===EM===
===EM===
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Images:
Images:
*[http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/jty1/Com/Com310-1-Diss.htm Tubulorecticular inclusions (ouhsc.edu)].
*[http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/jty1/Com/Com310-1-Diss.htm Tubulorecticular inclusions (ouhsc.edu)].
====DDx:====
* Anti-Jo1 myositis
* Paraneoplastic myositis


==Inclusion body myositis==
==Inclusion body myositis==
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Features:
Features:
*Inflammation.
*Inflammation.
*Vacuolated muscle fibres (with proteineous aggregates) '''key feature'''.
*Vacuolated muscle fibres (with proteineous aggregates) - '''key feature'''.
**Vacuolation = "inclusion"
**Vacuolation = "inclusion".
***Usually in the centroidal location.
***Usually in the centroidal location.


DDx: polymyositis.
DDx:  
*[[Polymyositis]].


===IHC===  
===IHC===  
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===EM===
===EM===
*Inclusion bodies - tubulovescicular material.<ref>URL: [http://neuromuscular.wustl.edu/pathol/ibm.htm http://neuromuscular.wustl.edu/pathol/ibm.htm]. Accessed on: 3 November 2010.</ref>
*Inclusion bodies - tubulovescicular material.<ref>URL: [http://neuromuscular.wustl.edu/pathol/ibm.htm http://neuromuscular.wustl.edu/pathol/ibm.htm]. Accessed on: 3 November 2010.</ref>
<gallery>
File:IBM rimmed vacuoles HE x200.jpg | Rimmed vacuoles in inclusion body myositis (HE).
</gallery>


==Polymyositis==
==Polymyositis==
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===Microscopic===
===Microscopic===
Features:
Features:<ref name=ouhsc_znn>URL: [http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/jty1/neurohelp/ZNN0TA01.htm http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/jty1/neurohelp/ZNN0TA01.htm]. Accessed on: 25 February 2012.</ref>
*Inflammation.
*Lymphocytes - may be in large clusters.
**"Partial invasion" - lymphocytes within the muscle fibres - '''key feature'''.
*Regenerating fibres with enlarged nuclei.
 
DDx:
*[[Inclusion body myositis]].
*[[Dermatomyositis]].
 
<gallery>
File:Neuropathology case XII 01.jpg | Polymoysitis ([[H&E]])
File:Neuropathology case XII 02.jpg | Polymoysitis ([[H&E]])
File:Neuropathology case XII 03.jpg | Polymoysitis (CD45)
File:Neuropathology case XII 04.jpg | Polymoysitis (MHC-I)
File:Polymyositis_HE.jpg | Polymoysitis ([[H&E]])
</gallery>
 
Images:
*[http://neuromuscular.wustl.edu/pathol/inflammation.htm#cellinv Focal invasion of lymphocytes (wustl.edu)].
 
===IHC===
Features:<ref name=ouhsc_znn>URL: [http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/jty1/neurohelp/ZNN0TA01.htm http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/jty1/neurohelp/ZNN0TA01.htm]. Accessed on: 25 February 2012.</ref>
*T cells > B cells.
**Endomysial - T cells.
**Perimysial - B cells.
 


DDx: Inclusion body myositis.


==Muscular dystrophy==
==Granulomatous myositis==
===General===
===General===
*DDx: large.
Etiology:<ref>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Prieto-González | first1 = S. | last2 = Grau | first2 = JM. | title = Diagnosis and classification of granulomatous myositis. | journal = Autoimmun Rev | volume = 13 | issue = 4-5 | pages = 372-4 | month =  | year =  | doi = 10.1016/j.autrev.2014.01.017 | PMID = 24424169 }}</ref>
* [[Sarcoidosis]].
* Idiopathic.
* Infectious ([[Tuberculosis]], Syphillis, Brucellosis.
* Foreign-body reaction.
* [[Thymoma]] - myasthenia gravis.
* [[Lymphoma]] - paraneoplastic.
* [[Primary biliary cholangitis]].
 
<gallery>
File:Sarkoidosis muscle.jpg | Sarcoidosis ([[H&E]])
File:Granulomatous myositis.jpg | Granulomatous myositis ([[H&E]])
</gallery>
 


A short DDx:
==Spinal muscular atrophy==
*Duchenne's muscular dystrophy.<ref>URL: [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/omim/310200 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/omim/310200]. Accessed on: 29 October 2010.</ref>
* Autosomal recessive disease by SMN1 gene deletion on chromosome 5q.
*Becker's muscular dystrophy.
* Centromeric gene copy (SMN2) whose product can mitigate disease severity.
*Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy.
* Variability in severity and age of onset of disease (SMA type 1-4).
**Lotsa different mutations, autosomal dominant and recessive variants.
* Neurogenic muscle atrophy, weakness, loss of reflexes, tongue fasciculation and tremor.
*Myotonic dystrophy.<ref>URL: [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/omim/160900 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/omim/160900]. Accessed on: 29 October 2010.</ref><ref>URL: [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/omim/602668 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/omim/602668]. Accessed on: 29 October 2010.</ref>
** Usu. groups of atrophic fibers.
** Few compensatorirc hypertrophic fibers.
===Diagnostic relevance===
* Antisense-oligonucleotide that increase full-length protein product derived from SMN2 (Nusinersen).
* Gene transfer with scAAV9-SMN (Zolgensma).


==Metabolic myopathy==
===Microscopic===
===Microscopic===
Features:
Fetures:
*Endomysial fibrosis.
*Intramuscular storage deposits.
*Hypercontracted fibres (large muscle fibres).
** PAS positive stain in glycogen storage disease.
 
<gallery>
File:PAS glycogen storage disease intermed mag.jpg | Glycogen storage (PAS).
File:Trichrom glycogen storage disease intermed mag..jpg | Glycogen storage (Trichrom).
File:Vacuolar myopathy mcArdle type V glcogenosis.jpg | Type V glocogenosis (McArdle, HE).
</gallery>


==Myotonic dystrophy==
==Myotonic dystrophy==
===Microscopic===
===Microscopic===
Features:
Features:
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*A type of congenital myopathy.
*A type of congenital myopathy.
*Paediatric thingy.
*Paediatric thingy.
*May appear secondary in other lesions.
*Rods are seen in trichrome stain
<gallery>
File:Biopsy nemaline myopathy gomori.jpg | Nemaline rods (Trichrom Gomöri).
File:Congenital nemaline myopathy.jpg | Congenital nemaline myopathy (Trichrom Gomöri).
</gallery>


==Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy==
==Central core myopathy==
===General===
===General===
*A group of muscular dystrophies with childhood or adult onset.<ref>URL: [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK1408/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK1408/]. Accessed on: 25 November 2010.</ref>
*Floppy infant, but stable clinial course.
*Rare.
*Autosomal dominant inheritance.
*Usually autosomal recessive.
**Mutation in RYR1
*Treatment: none; supportive only.
**Predisposition for malignant hyperthermia.
*Normal CK levels.
*Non-pathologic EMG.
 
*Cores visile in NADH staining.
**Mostly centrally, but can be eccentric.
 
<gallery>
File:Central core disease NADH stain.jpg | Cores (NADH stain).
File:Cell sample of muscle tissue with central core disease (stained for contrast).jpg | Cores (NADH TR stain).
</gallery>
 
==Centronuclear myopathy==
*AKA myotubular myopathy
*Several types
** X-chromosomal recessive: floppy infant
** austosmal dominant: late onset with proximal involvement, ptosis, opthalmoplegia


===Subtypes===
<gallery>
*Sarcoglycanopathy.
File:Biopsy centronuclear myopathy HE.jpg
*Calpainopahty.
</gallery>
*Dysferlinopathy.


Notes:
Image centronuclear myopathy<ref>URL: [http://www.igbmc.fr/recherche/Dep_NG/Eq_JLaporte/JL3.html http://www.igbmc.fr/recherche/Dep_NG/Eq_JLaporte/JL3.html]. Accessed on: 26 October 2010.</ref>).
*Can be demonstrated with IHC.


===DDx===
==Drug-induced rhabdomyolysis==
*DMD gene associated MDs (Duchenne MD, Becker MD).
*AKA ''drug-induced acute necrotizing myopathy''.
*Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD).
*Emery-Dreifuss MD (EDMD).
*Congenital MD (CMD).
*Inflammatory myopathies.


==Mitochondrial disorders==
===General===
===General===
*Onset childhood to adulthood.
Clinical:<ref name=pmid15021204>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Coco | first1 = TJ. | last2 = Klasner | first2 = AE. | title = Drug-induced rhabdomyolysis. | journal = Curr Opin Pediatr | volume = 16 | issue = 2 | pages = 206-10 | month = Apr | year = 2004 | doi =  | PMID = 15021204 }}</ref>
*Heteroplasmy - variable distribution of badness within affected individuals.
*Myalgias.
**Leads to "threshold effect".
*Myoglobinuria.
*Increased elevated serum creatine kinase (CK).
 
Causes:
*Ecstasy (MDMA).
*Statins.


===Microscopic===
===Microscopic===
*Trichrome most useful - find the ragged red fibres - usu. at the cell periphery.
Features:
*COX-SDH:
*Muscle [[necrosis]].
**Non-staining (???).
**Fibre collapse = increased staining on [[H&E stain|H&E]], [[HPS stain|HPS]].
**Peripheral blue accumulation in occasional cells.
**Karyolysis - loss of nuclei.
**Macrophage (phagocytosis) clean-up = pale moth-eaten appearance (seen well on [[PAS stain|PAS]]).
*No inflammation.
*No perifascicular atrophy.
 
Images:
*[http://path.upmc.edu/cases/case184/micro.html Drug-induced rhabdomyolysis - several images (upmc.edu)].
 
===Stains===
*PAS +ve fibres (macrophages).
 
===IHC===
*CD45 -ve (no lymphocytes).


===EM===
===EM===
Features:
*Negative for [[tubuloreticular inclusions]].
*Crystalloid inclusions.<ref>URL: [http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/jty1/neurotest/Q09-Ans.htm http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/jty1/neurotest/Q09-Ans.htm]. Accessed on: 26 October 2010.</ref>
*"Ballooned" mitochondria; loss of cristae -- loss of membranous folds within mitochrondrion.


==Trichinosis==
==Trichinosis==
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Parasitic disease classically associated with consumption of uncooked pork.
Parasitic disease classically associated with consumption of uncooked pork.


==Type 2 fibre atrophy==
=Nerve stuff=
DDx:
*Disuse.
*Space travel.
*Steroids.
*Others.
 
==Nerve stuff==
===General===
===General===
*Most common biopsy: sural nerve.
*Most common biopsy: sural nerve.
**Approx. 20-30% of the biopsies are diagnostic or may alter treatment decisions.
** Far less common: Superficial peroneal nerve.
*Metabolic, toxic and nutritional causes account for 50% of neuropathies.
*Inflammatory neuropathies (mostly GBS, CIDP or vasculitis): 10-20%.
*Familial neuropathy: 10-20%.
*Neoplasm-associated neuropathy: 5-10%.
===Nerve structure===
*Nerve (surrounded by epineurium).
*Fascicle (surrounded by perineurium).
** Usu 6-15 fascicles in sural nerve.
*Nerve fibre (surrounded by endoneurium).
**Myelinated axons.
**Unmyelinated axons and their Schwann cells together are called Remak bundles.
Epineurium:
* Capillaries, arterioles and venules.
* Fibroblasts (CD34+/-ve, EMA-ve, S100-ve).
* Macrophages (CD68+ve, CD168+ve).
* Mast cells (metachromatic granules).
* Leukocytes (usu. less than 10 CD3+ve Lymphocytes/mm²).
* Pacinian corpuscles (no pathological relevance).
Perineurium:
* Fascicles may separated by perineurial septae.
*Occasional perineurial calcifications (no pathological relevance).
*Renaut bodies (subperineurial whorled structures consisting of fibroblasts).
<gallery>
Image:N_renaut_body_semithin.jpg|Renaut body in a fascicle.
File:Pacinian Corpuscle (36298105211).jpg|Pacinian corpuscle.
</gallery>


===Stains===
===Stains===
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*Axon = green.
*Axon = green.
*Myelin = red.
*Myelin = red.
Toluidine blue staion:
*Plastic embedded semithin sections (1µm).
===Artifacts===
*Myelin splits: stretching.
*Neurokeratin: Formalin fixation (longitudinal: "herringbone", cross section: "wagon-wheels").
*Dark staining myelin: crushing.
*Pale expanding myelin sheets: delayed fixation.
*Uneven myelin staining: osmication problems.
*Shrunken crescentic fascicles: Hyperosmolarity.
===Reactive changes===
* Traumatic [[Peripheral_nerve_sheath_tumours#Traumatic_neuroma|Neuroma]]
* Pacinian [[Neuroma]]
* Nerve cysts.
* Neuritis ossificans.
* Localized interdigital neuritis ([[Morton neuroma]]).


===Degenerative changes===
===Degenerative changes===
Types:<ref>URL: [http://missinglink.ucsf.edu/lm/ids_104_musclenerve_path/student_musclenerve/nervepath.html http://missinglink.ucsf.edu/lm/ids_104_musclenerve_path/student_musclenerve/nervepath.html]. Accessed on: 9 November 2010.</ref>
Types:<ref>URL: [http://missinglink.ucsf.edu/lm/ids_104_musclenerve_path/student_musclenerve/nervepath.html http://missinglink.ucsf.edu/lm/ids_104_musclenerve_path/student_musclenerve/nervepath.html]. Accessed on: 9 November 2010.</ref>
*Wallerian degeneration.
*Axonal degeneration.
*Axonal degeneration.  
*Wallerian degeneration.  
*Segmental demyelination.  
*Segmental demyelination.  
====Axonal degeneration====
*Axonal swelling.
*Intra-axonal filamentous aggregates.
*Mitochondrial abnormalities.
*Aggregation of organelles and dense bodies.


====Wallerian degeneration====
====Wallerian degeneration====
*Digestion chamber - '''key feature'''.
*Watery axon and granular disintegration (distal).
**Image: [http://missinglink.ucsf.edu/lm/ids_104_musclenerve_path/student_musclenerve/subpages/digchamb1.html Digestion chamber (missinglink.ucsf.edu)].
*Macrophage accumulation (3-4d after transsection).
*Many lysosomes (CD68+ve).
*Endoneurial proliferation.
*Digestion chambers - '''key feature'''.
 
Images:
*[http://missinglink.ucsf.edu/lm/ids_104_musclenerve_path/student_musclenerve/subpages/digchamb1.html Digestion chambers (missinglink.ucsf.edu)].
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Digestion_chambers_--_very_high_mag_-_cropped.jpg Digestion chambers (WC)].
 
====Segmental demyelination====
*Onion bulb formations - '''key feature'''.
<gallery>
File:Onion bulbs semi thin nerve biopsy.jpg | Onion bulbs in toluidine blue stain.
File:Onion bulb formation HMSN.jpg | Onion bulbs in HSMN type I.
</gallery>
 
===Regeneration===
*Axon sprouts (regenerating clusters): Three or more closely apposed myelinated axons.
*Thin myelin sheaths.
 
===Inflammation===
*[[Inflammatory pseudotumour]].
*[[Leprosy]] (Leprous neuropathy).
*[[Sarcoidosis]].
*CMV neuritis in immuncompromised patients.
*[[Vasculitis]].
*Paraprotein-associated neuropathy.
*Neuropathy with macrophage-induced demyelination (CIDP, GBS).
 
====Guillain–Barré syndrome====
*Acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (AIDP)
*Preceding infection (RSV, EBV, CMV, HIV, Mycoplasma).
*Monophasic course of motor / sensory deficits.
*Hours to 4 weeks.
*Elevated CSF protein but normal cell count.
*Mononuclear ednoneurial perivascular inflammatory infiltrate (mostly CD4+ve).
*Destructive myelin stripping by macrophages.
*Reduced fiber density.
*Uncompacted myelin / Widely spaced myelin.
 
====Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP)====
*Progredient course longer than 8 weeks.<ref>URL: [http://path.upmc.edu/cases/case426.html http://path.upmc.edu/cases/case426.html]. Accessed on: 14
November 2010.</ref>
*Progressive or relapsing and remitting course.
*Multifocal affections of proximal nerves (motor and sensory symptoms).
*Responsive to steroids.
*Enlargement of affected nerve.
*Variation of fiber density between fascicles / reduced axon numbers.
*CD4+ve/CD8+ve inflammatory infiltrates(approx. 65% cases).
*Demyelination (thinly myelinated axons, macrophages).
*Onion-bulb formations (15-40%, chronic recurrent demyelination and remyelination).
DDx: Familial hypertrophic neuropathy.
 
====Neurosarcoidosis====
*Neurological symptoms in 5% of sarcoidosis cases.
*Granulomas may be endoneurial or epineurial.
*Compact mass of epitheloid cells.
*Perilesional fibrosis and lymphocytic infiltrates.
*Axonal loss and regenerating fibers.
*Segmental demyelination and remyelination.
 
====Vasculitic neuropathy====
*Endoneurial and epineurial mircrovessels, arterioles and venules.
*Ischemia of nerve: thrombosis and fibrinoid necrosis.
*Signs of previous vasculitis: Vessel narrowing, fragmentation of elastica, fibrous obliteration and recanalization.
*Often nerve involvement in systemic vasculitis:
**Medium-sized epineurial vessels: mostly classic polyarteritis nodosa.
**Small and medium-sized vessels and eosinophilia: Churg-Strauss angitis.
**Small vessels and necrotizing: ANCA-associated microscopic polyangitis.
 
 
<gallery>
File:Leprosy with perineural invasion 3.jpg | leprosy with perineural invasion. H&E stain (WC/Kozhikode)
File:Granulomatous_nerve_inflammation.jpg | Granulomatous inflammation of peripheral nerve in sarcoidosis (WC/jensflorian)
</gallery>
 
===Other Diseases===
*Amyloid neuropathy: Amorphic endoneurial deposits.
**TTR amyloidosis is of specific interest, because treatment options exist.<ref>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Adams | first1 = D. | last2 = Koike | first2 = H. | last3 = Slama | first3 = M. | last4 = Coelho | first4 = T. | title = Hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis: a model of medical progress for a fatal disease. | journal = Nat Rev Neurol | volume = 15 | issue = 7 | pages = 387-404 | month = Jul | year = 2019 | doi = 10.1038/s41582-019-0210-4 | PMID = 31209302 }}</ref>
**Example of amyloid deposits [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41582-019-0210-4/figures/3 here]
*Neuropathy associated with paraproteinemia: Alterations in myelin periodicity, nerve fiber loss.
**[[MGUS]] - Monoclonal gammopathy of unknown significance.
** Multiple myeloma.
**[[POEMS]] syndrome.
**[[LCDD]] - light chain deposition diesease.
*Toxic polyneuropathy (drug toxicity).<ref>URL: [http://path.upmc.edu/cases/case173.html http://path.upmc.edu/cases/case173.html]. Accessed on: 8 January 2012.</ref>
*Polyglucosan body disease.
 
===Neoplasms===
 
''Main article: [[Peripheral nerve sheath tumours]]''


===Diseases===
*Nerve sheath tumors:
*Guillain–Barré syndrome.
**[[Schwannoma]]
*Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP).<ref>URL: [http://path.upmc.edu/cases/case426.html http://path.upmc.edu/cases/case426.html]. Accessed on: 14 November 2010.</ref>
**[[Neurofibroma]]
**Essentially chronic Guillain–Barré syndrome.
**[[Perineurioma]]
**[[Nerve sheath myxoma]]
**[[Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumour]]
*Non neurogenic-tumors of the nerve:
**[[Paraganglioma]]
**[[Lipoma]]
**[[Hemangioblastoma]] <ref>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Gläsker | first1 = S. | last2 = Berlis | first2 = A. | last3 = Pagenstecher | first3 = A. | last4 = Vougioukas | first4 = VI. | last5 = Van Velthoven | first5 = V. | title = Characterization of hemangioblastomas of spinal nerves. | journal = Neurosurgery | volume = 56 | issue = 3 | pages = 503-9; discussion 503-9 | month = Mar | year = 2005 | doi =  | PMID = 15730575 }}</ref>
**[[Synovial sarcoma]] <ref>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Scheithauer | first1 = BW. | last2 = Amrami | first2 = KK. | last3 = Folpe | first3 = AL. | last4 = Silva | first4 = AI. | last5 = Edgar | first5 = MA. | last6 = Woodruff | first6 = JM. | last7 = Levi | first7 = AD. | last8 = Spinner | first8 = RJ. | title = Synovial sarcoma of nerve. | journal = Hum Pathol | volume = 42 | issue = 4 | pages = 568-77 | month = Apr | year = 2011 | doi = 10.1016/j.humpath.2010.08.019 | PMID = 21295819 }}</ref>


==See also==
=See also=
*[[Neuropathology]].
*[[Neuropathology]].


==References==
=References=
{{reflist|2}}
{{reflist|2}}


==External links==
=External links=
*[http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/jty1/NeuroHelp/ZNEWWU10.htm How to work up a muscle biopsy (ouhsc.edu)].
*[http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/jty1/NeuroHelp/ZNEWWU10.htm How to work up a muscle biopsy (ouhsc.edu)].
*[http://neuromuscular.wustl.edu/lab/mbiopsy.htm Muscle biopsies (wustl.edu)].
*[http://neuromuscular.wustl.edu/lab/mbiopsy.htm Muscle biopsies (wustl.edu)].


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