Primary Sjögren's syndrome with myalgia mimicking dermatomyositis

Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 837-839

  Saito, Sanae ^a   Togashi, Ari ^a   Kaneko, Fumio ^a   Yamamoto, Teiji ^a   Uchida, Tetsuya ^a   Oyama, Noritaka ^b  

^a Southern Tohoku General Hospital and Southern Tohoku Research Institute for Neuroscience   (Japan)

^b FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; CREATINE KINASE; FLUORESCEIN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; FRUCTOSE BISPHOSPHATE ALDOLASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LA ANTIBODY; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PREDNISOLONE; RO ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARM MUSCLE; ARTHRALGIA; CASE REPORT; CONVALESCENCE; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DERMATOMYOSITIS; DERMIS; DRY EYE; ELBOW; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ERYTHEMA; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; EYE EXAMINATION; EYELID; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; FINGER; HAND PALM; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JAPANESE; LEG; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIMB WEAKNESS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHOCYTIC VASCULITIS; MONOCYTE; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MYALGIA; NECK; NEUTROPHIL; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAPULE; PARONYCHIA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PURPURA; SALIVA; SCHIRMER TEST; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SKIN BIOPSY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; URINALYSIS; VASCULITIS; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; BIOPSY; DERMATOMYOSITIS; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PREDNISOLONE; SJOGREN'S SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77956218272     PISSN: 03852407     EISSN: 13468138     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1346-8138.2010.00888.x     Document Type: Letter

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