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Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scan : (MRI) An MRI Scan is used to see small changes in the body that cannot be seen with a normal x-ray. Magnets and radio waves are used to make a computer picture of the parts of the body the doctor wants to study.
Myopathy : Myopathy is a muscle disease unrelated to any disorder or innervation or neuromuscular junction.
Mechanics Hands : People with Dermatomyositis or Polymyositis may develop " Mechanics Hands" a roughening and cracking of the skin of the tips and sides of the fingers, resulting in irregular, dirty appearing lines resembling those of a manual laborer.
Methotrexate : Is an antimetabolite medicine and an immunosuppressant. It is used to interfere with cell growth and to reduce the activity of the immune system.
Metabolic Myopathy : Metabolic Myopathies are Myopathies that result from defects in biochemical metabolism that primarily affects muscle.
Myalgia : Myalgia means "Muscle Pain" and is a symptom of many diseases and disorders. The most common causes are the overuse or the over-stretching of a muscle or group of muscles.
Myopathy : Myopathy is a term used to describe muscle disease. The Inflammatory myopathies are a group of diseases that involve chronic muscle inflammation accompanied by muscle weakness. Another word for chronic inflammation of muscle tissue is myositis.
Myositis : Myositis is the general term for for swelling of the Muscles. Myositis is also the popular term to describe a number of inflammatory Myopathies
Myositis ossificans : A lump appears in the affected muscle, and this lump may hurt when you press it. These symptoms usually begin several weeks after a muscle injury, especially a bruise.
Myositis Specific Antibodies (MSA) : MSA are autoantibodies that are almost exclusively detected in idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM)
NSAID : NSAID stands for Non Steroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs.