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Dermatomyositis

Seminars in Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery, 2001
Dermatomyositis is a disease that has a characteristic skin eruption that may occur with or without a proximal myopathy. The disease with cutaneous features only is classified as amyopathic dermatomyositis. The origin is unknown, but autoimmune factors are believed to play an important role.
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Juvenile Dermatomyositis

Zeitschrift für Rheumatologie, 2006
Juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM) is an inflammatory multi-system disease of unknown etiology with classic involvement of the skin and striated muscles. Following a prodromal period, patients develop a progressive proximal muscle weakness. Typical skin involvement includes heliotrope rash, facial erythema, Gottron's sign and nailfold capillary ...
H.-I. Huppertz, F. Dressler
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Dermatomyositis and Malignancy

Medical Clinics of North America, 1989
In summary, it can be stated that: 1. Dermatomyositis is probably associated with an increased incidence of malignancy. 2. Tumor types found seem to roughly approximate the frequencies of those found in the general population. 3. If present, the malignancy can precede, occur concurrently with, or follow the diagnosis of dermatomyositis. 4. Treatment of
Jeffrey B. Richardson, Jeffrey P. Callen
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Juvenile Dermatomyositis

Pediatric Clinics of North America, 1986
Myositis in childhood is characterized by elevated serum levels of muscle-derived enzymes, proximal symmetrical muscle weakness, abnormal EMG findings, and a muscle biopsy, which frequently documents an inflammatory process. In the pediatric age group, JDMS, which has characteristic cutaneous involvement in addition to myositis, is much more common ...
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Dermatomyositis – update

Der Hautarzt, 2015
Dermatomyositis is a rare idiopathic inflammatory myopathy that affects adults and children, mostly female. Hallmarks of the disease are myositis with necrosis, regeneration and perifascicular atrophy accompanied by a typical skin rash with heliotrope erythema, Gottron's sign, Gottron's papules and nail fold changes with splinter hemorrhage.
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Dermatomyositis

The Indian Journal of Pediatrics, 1973
M. Roy, Y. R. Sachdev, A. R. Subramanian
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Dermatomyositis

The Irish Journal of Medical Science, 1955
Joan MacCarthy, David Mitchell
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Update: Dermatomyositis

Der Hautarzt, 2010
Dermatomyositis is an idiopathic inflammatory myopathy and an "orphan disease" (incidence 1:100,000). It comprises a heterogenous clinical spectrum with periorbital heliotrope erythema, acral Gottron papules, and proximal muscle weakness. Muscle-specific antibody profiles correlate with clinical variants.
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Dermatomyositis

The Journal of Pediatrics, 1964
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Dermatomyositis

Medical Clinics of North America, 1949
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