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Table 1 Pattern recognition in DGC-related muscular dystrophies at the thigh level

From: Value of muscle magnetic resonance imaging in the differential diagnosis of muscular dystrophies related to the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex

 

In the proximal thigh

In the distal thigh

The trefoil with single fruit sign

Severe fatty infiltration and atrophy of adductor longus

Adductor longus medial sparing

The concentric fatty infiltration

Relative sparing of vastus intermedius and vastus medialis

LGMD2D

2/11 (18.18%)

8/11 (72.72%)

5/11 (45.45%)

9/11 (72.73%)

2/11 (18.18%)

LGMD2E

2/5 (40.00%)

2/5 (40.00%)

2/5 (40.00%)

4/5 (80.00%)

1/5 (20.00%)

LGMD2C

0/1 (0.00%)

1/1 (100.00%)

1/1 (100.00%)

1/1 (100.00%)

0/1 (0.00%)

Sarcoglycanopathies

4/17 (23.53%)

11/17 (64.71%)

8/17 (47.06%)

14/17 (82.35%)

3/17 (17.65%)

LGMD2I

2/10 (20.00%)

6/10 (60.00%)

5/10 (50.00%)

9/10 (90.00%)

1/10 (10.00%)

DMD

15/16 (93.75%)

0/16 (0.00%)

0/16 (0.00%)

0/16 (0.00%)

12/16 (75.00%)

BMD

6/6 (100.00%)

1/6 (16.67%)

0/6 (0.00%)

0/6 (0.00%)

3/6 (50.00%)

Dystrophinopathies

21/22 (95.45%)

1/22 (4.55%)

0/22 (0.00%)

0/22 (0.00%)

15/22 (68.18%)

  1. Sarcoglycanopathies, LGMD2D, LGMD2E, and LGMD2C; FKRP-associated dystroglycanopathy, LGMD2I; Dystrophinopathies, DMD and BMD. DGC, dystrophin-glycoprotein complex; LGMD, limb-girdle muscular dystrophy; DMD, Duchenne muscular dystrophy; BMD, Becker muscular dystrophy