Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies: diagnosis, treatment and outcome

Published: Jan 1, 2015
Abstract
The idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) in adults are a heterogenic group of disorders characterized by muscle inflammation and progressive muscle weakness. This group consists of five subacute-onset disorders: polymyositis (PM) which is extremely rare, (clinically amyopathic) dermatomyositis (DM), nonspecific or overlap myositis (NSM), necrotizing autoimmune myopathy (NAM), and sporadic inclusion body myositis (IBM). The investigations...
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Title
Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies: diagnosis, treatment and outcome
Published Date
Jan 1, 2015
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