EGF and multiminicore myopathy: Recently, many studies have shown that, unlike tumor angiogenesis, vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) does not play a major role in observed angiogenesis in patients with MMD [5, 16], Additionally, IL-8, PDGF, EGF, and TGF-β are not mechanisms of angiogenesis in MMD [5, 17, 18].