Clinical analysis of 29 patients with clinically amyopathic dermatomyositis

National Medical Journal of China

Volumn 87, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 1345-1347

  Zhang, Zhuo Li ^a   Lai, Ai Yun ^b   Xu, Dong ^b   Chen, Yi He ^b   Tang, Fu Lin ^b  

^a PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (China)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Dermatomyositis; Interstitial

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; STEROID;

ADULT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICALLY AMYOPATHIC DERMATOMYOSITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOMYOSITIS; ELBOW; ERYTHEMA; FATALITY; FEMALE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HIP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LUNG DISEASE; MALE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; MYOPATHY; ONSET AGE; PAPULE; PATELLA; PROGNOSIS; PROXIMAL INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; RASH; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SHOULDER; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN MANIFESTATION; STEROID THERAPY; TELANGIECTASIA;

ADULT; BIOPSY; DERMATOMYOSITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN;

EID: 34447567511     PISSN: 03762491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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