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CASE REPORT
Ischaemia due to a vascular malformation causing focal myositis
  1. Nuha Marwan Alkhawajah1,2,
  2. Tim-Rasmus Kiehl3,
  3. Vera Bril2
  1. 1Department of Medicine and Neurology, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  2. 2Department of Medicine and Neurology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
  3. 3Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
  1. Correspondence to Dr Vera Bril, vera.bril{at}utoronto.ca

Summary

Focal myositis secondary to an intramuscular vascular malformation has rarely been reported in the literature. We describe a 21-year-old woman presenting with left thigh pain. Imaging of the thigh muscles showed a vascular malformation and muscle biopsy demonstrated focal changes diagnosed initially as myositis. Ischaemia is thought to be the responsible mechanism.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2013-202442

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