Psoas muscle index is not representative of skeletal muscle index for evaluating cancer sarcopenia

• Main Authors: Frédéric Pigneur (Author), Mario Di Palma (Author), Bruno Raynard (Author), Aymeric Guibal (Author), Frédéric Cohen (Author), Nassima Daidj (Author), Richard Aziza (Author), Mostafa El Hajjam (Author), Guillaume Louis (Author), François Goldwasser (Author), Elise Deluche (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wiley, 2023-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

Abstract Background A common method for diagnosing sarcopenia involves estimating the muscle mass by computed tomography (CT) via measurements of the cross‐sectional muscle area (CSMA) of all muscles at the third lumbar vertebra (L3) level. Recently, single‐muscle measurements of the psoas major mus...