Focal myositis in monozygotic twins

Internal Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 599-601

  Al Naggar, Enas Atef ^a   Kanda, Fumio ^a   Okuda, Shiho ^a   Maeda, Nobuya ^a   Nakazawa, Ken Ichiro ^a   Oishi, Kenichi ^a   Sekiguchi, Kenji ^a   Ishihara, Hiroyuki ^a   Chihara, Kazuo ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Calf muscle; Focal myositis; Hereditary; HLA

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LEG PAIN; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MYOSITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RECURRENT DISEASE;

ADULT; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; DISEASES IN TWINS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; JAPAN; LOWER EXTREMITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MYOSITIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 4444276151     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.43.599     Document Type: Article

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