Among the fibers: A multimodality imaging review of intramuscular mass lesions

Abstract

The common presentations of patient complaints regarding the musculoskeletal system, such as pain, swelling, and restriction of movement, lead to the imaging discovery of various lesions often located in, or arising from, skeletal muscle in the region of interest. Knowledge of the patients’ clinical history, laboratory parameters, and various imaging characteristics of the implicated lesions would assist the radiologist in coming to a timely, reasonably accurate conclusion about the etiology of the patient’s complaints, the severity of disease, and in directing patient therapy.

Keywords

• abscess
• intramuscular
• hemangioma
• hematoma
• lipoma
• liposarcoma
• myocysticercosis
• myositis ossificans
• sarcoma
• vascular malformation