Diagnostic challenge and therapeutic dilemma in necrotizing myopathy

Neurology

Volumn 81, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 932-935

  Claeys, Kristl G ^a,b   Gorodinskaya, Olga ^a,b   Handt, Susanne ^c   Reimann, Jens ^d   Kress, Wolfram ^e   Kornblum, Cornelia ^d   Kuhl, Christiane ^c   Schulz, Jörg B ^a,b   Weis, Joachim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b JARA TRANSLATIONAL BRAIN MEDICINE   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; STEROID;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DYSPHAGIA; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; LIMB WEAKNESS; MALE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MYALGIA; MYOPATHY; MYOSITIS; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCULAR DISEASES; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES, LIMB-GIRDLE; NECROSIS;

EID: 84884643076     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3182a35285     Document Type: Note

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