Subclinical myopathic findings in patients affected by malignant tumours. An autopsy study.

Histoenzymologic studies on representative muscles and the peripheral microcirculation from selected autopsies of non cachectic patients dying of neoplasms, without signs of neuromuscular involvement, demonstrate a high incidence of neuromuscular and microcirculatory changes. A correlation between neuromuscular changes and the peripheral microcirculation particularly evident in myopathic cases is discussed.