Ischaemia due to a vascular malformation causing focal myositis.

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Department of Medicine and Neurology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.

Published: August 2014


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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.

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