The TREAT-NMD workshop on pattern recognition by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of skeletal muscle is one in a series of workshops that have been organised by TREAT-NMD to discuss the application of MRI in neuromuscular diseases. In recent years MRI has become more widely used in patients with neuromuscular diseases because the extent and localisation of muscle pathology can provide useful in...

dear editor:   hehua ye and colleagues reported an interesting and rare case of primary conjunctival rhabdomyosarcoma (rms) successfully treated with surgery and chemotherapy in iranian journal of ophthalmology 201123(4):65-68. there are some considerable comments that i would like to point out.   orbital rms is the most common malignant mesenchymal neoplasm of the childhood and may also rarely...

in this report we are going to discuss the following subjects: 1. indications of muscle biopsy in which situation it can not be helpful. 2. how to take a muscle biopsy? 3. how a muscle biopsy should be operated? 4. which techniques do we need to read and interpret a muscle biopsy histologically (h & e staining, histochemical study, electron microscopy). 5. muscle disease histopathologic changes...