Abstract:Report of two adult males, 31 and 24 years-old, with hypertrophy in their left inferior limb, with denervation in the electromyography. Both patients undergone to a muscle biopsy in the normal and in the enlarged limb, which were processed by histochemistry. The mean muscle fiber diameter, percentage of muscle type fibers and atrophy and hypertrophy factors were calculated, as well as histographic fiber analysis. We found rare atrophic muscle fibers and one of the patients had hypertrophy of type II muscle fib… Show more
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