Clinically amyopathic dermatomyositis: What can we now tell our patients?

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 76-80

  Sontheimer, Richard D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CA 125 ANTIGEN; TUMOR MARKER;

AMYOPATHIC DERMATOMYOSITIS; BARIUM ENEMA; COLONOSCOPY; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DERMATOLOGY; DERMATOMYOSITIS; EDITORIAL; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMMUNODIFFUSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INCIDENCE; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDLINE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYOSITIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OVARY CANCER; PATIENT CARE; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; POIKILODERMA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RACE; RISK; SCREENING; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY;

BIOPSY; DERMATOMYOSITIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES; RISK FACTORS; SKIN;

EID: 74549210694     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: 15383652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archdermatol.2009.323     Document Type: Editorial

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