Drug treatment of juvenile dermatomyositis.
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Drug treatment of juvenile dermatomyositis.
A series of 29 children with dermatomyositis has been reviewed and the outcome compared between cases treated by us initially with a low dosage short duration course of corticosteroids, and those referred late and having had various different therapeutic regimens and usually more active and higher dosage drug schedules. There were fewer relapses and less morbidity in the low dosage short term g...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 1983
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/adc.58.6.445