Toxic myopathies: Muscle biopsy features

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 82-86

  Scola, Rosana Herminia ^a   Pereira, Eduardo Rafael ^a   Lorenzoni, Paulo José ^a   Werneck, Lineu César ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Drug; Iatrogenic myopathy; Muscle biopsy; Myopathy; Toxic myopathy

Indexed keywords

AMINOCAPROIC ACID; AZATHIOPRINE; CHLOROQUINE; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; DEXTROPROPOXYPHENE; FUROSEMIDE; HALOPERIDOL; MUSCLE ENZYME; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PHENYTOIN; PREDNISONE; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; ZIDOVUDINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APLASTIC ANEMIA; ARTHRALGIA; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DEPRESSION; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLYCOGEN STORAGE DISEASE TYPE 5; GOUT; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPOKALEMIA; INTOXICATION; LYMPHOMA; MALARIA; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL MYOPATHY; MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MYALGIA; MYOPATHY; MYOSITIS; PAIN; PSYCHOSIS; SEIZURE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TOXIC MYOPATHY;

EID: 34147129708     PISSN: 0004282X     EISSN: 16784227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0004-282X2007000100018     Document Type: Article

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