Laboratory evaluation of the inflammatory myopathies
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Inflammatory myopathies: evaluation and management.
The inflammatory myopathies, including dermatomyositis, inclusion body myositis, and polymyositis, are poorly understood autoimmune diseases affecting skeletal muscle. Dermatomyositis is a disease mainly of skin and muscle, but may affect lung and other tissues. Proximal or generalized weakness or skin rash are the typical presenting features. Inclusion body myositis has a specific clinical pat...
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15 DOI 10/1007/978-1-60327-827-0_2, © Humana Press. a part of Springer Science + Business Media, LLC 2009 Abstract Although it has been long recognized that inflammatory muscle disease of unknown etiology may present clinically and respond to therapy in a variety of ways, our approaches regarding how to best classify or divide these entities into more understandable groups of patients has evolv...
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OBJECTIVE Our aim was to report our experience with inflammatory myositis. MATERIAL AND METHODS In total, 60 patients were evaluated retrospectively, and 43 of them (71.7%) were female. The median age was 45 (17-81). Of all patients, 33 (55%) were diagnosed as polymyositis, 22 (36.6%) as dermatomyositis (classical, amyopathic, and malignancy-associated), and 5 (8.33%) as undifferentiated myos...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology
سال: 1995
ISSN: 1071-412X,1098-6588
DOI: 10.1128/cdli.2.1.1-9.1995