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MR of Extraocular Muscles in Chronic Progressive External Ophthalmoplegia
AJNR 19:95-99, Carlow,T.J.,et al, 1998
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Article Abstract
MR imaging can show small extraocular muscles in patients with CPEO,which may help to distinguish this disorder from other entities.Since denervated extraocular muscles do not readily atrophy,this MR sign would support a myogenic pathologic substrate for CPEO.Variation in the degree of extraocular muscle atrophy may simply reflect the length of time the mitochondrial defect and ophthalmoplegia have been present.
 
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