Breast calcinosis, panniculitis and fat hypertrophy in a 35-year-old woman with dermatomyositis [4]

Rheumatology

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1378-1379

  Prendergast, M ^a   Hopkinson, Neil ^a  

^a Christchurch Hospital Dorset   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CREATINE KINASE; CYCLOSPORIN; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; METHOTREXATE; STEROID;

ADULT; BREAST CALCIFICATION; BREAST CALCINOSIS; BREAST TUMOR; CALCINOSIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DERMATOMYOSITIS; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; LIPOATROPHY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANNICULITIS; PAPULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; SKIN DISEASE; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT DISORDER; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; WASTING SYNDROME;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; ARM; BREAST DISEASES; CALCINOSIS; DERMATOMYOSITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; PANNICULITIS;

EID: 34547843700     PISSN: 14620324     EISSN: 14620332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/kem144     Document Type: Letter

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