Steroid-responsive dropped-head-syndrome due to polymyositis

Joint Bone Spine

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 485-486

  Finsterer, Josef ^a   Frank, Marlies ^a   Krexner, Elisabeth ^a  

^a KRANKENANSTALT RUDOLFSTIFTUNG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Malignancy; Metabolic myopathy; Myopathy; Myositis; Neuromuscular disorder; Paraneoplasia

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; EPIRUBICIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA CHAIN; INTERFERON; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE; VINCRISTINE;

ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; AGED; ANGIOIMMUNOBLASTIC LYMPHADENOPATHY; BASAL GANGLION; CASE REPORT; DERMATOMYOSITIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DROPPED HEAD SYNDROME; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSARTHRIA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; GRANULOMATOUS VASCULITIS; HEAD AND NECK DISEASE; HEART LEFT ANTERIOR BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HUMAN; LETTER; LIVER DISEASE; MALE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYALGIA; NECK MUSCLE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYMYOSITIS; PTOSIS; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; RELAPSE; SEDIMENTATION RATE; T CELL LYMPHOMA; THORAX DEFORMITY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VITILIGO;

AGED; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; GAMMA-GLOBULINS; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, T-CELL; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NECK MUSCLES; POLYMYOSITIS; RECURRENCE; SYNDROME;

EID: 77957864378     PISSN: 1297319X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbspin.2010.02.028     Document Type: Letter

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