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Improvement and Comparison of Measurement Methods of Sskeletal Muscle Mass

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  • Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine

Received date: 2018-03-16

  Online published: 2020-07-23

Abstract

Skeletal muscle is the foundation of human movement and also an important organ for energy storage.Measurement of the whole-body muscle mass is a common method for grading patients' nutritional status,while the measurement of specific local muscle groups is of great significance in surgical repair,preoperative and postoperative evaluation in patients with tissue defects.The measurement methods should be chosen according to different clinical purposes.In this paper,the common methods and their advantages,limitations and scope of application were all reviewed.

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SHI Wenjun,ZHU Lian . Improvement and Comparison of Measurement Methods of Sskeletal Muscle Mass[J]. Journal of Tissue Engineering and Reconstructive Surgery, 2018 , 14(3) : 165 -167 . DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1673-0364.2018.03.014

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