Effect of early treatment in polymyositis and dermatomyositis

Neurology India

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 58-61

  Naji, Peyman ^a   Shahram, Farhad ^a   Nadji, Abdolhadi ^a   Davatchi, Fereydoun ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Dermatomyositis; Early treatment; Inflammatory myositis; Polymyositis; Relapses

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOMYOSITIS; EARLY INTERVENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; LATE TREATMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYMYOSITIS; RECURRENCE RISK; REMISSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; AZATHIOPRINE; COHORT STUDIES; DERMATOMYOSITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; METHOTREXATE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMYOSITIS; PREDNISOLONE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77949640429     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: 19984022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0028-3886.60398     Document Type: Article

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