Dermatomyositis presenting with severe subcutaneous edema: Five additional cases and review of the literature

Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 228-233

  Milisenda, José C ^a   Doti, Pamela I ^a   Prieto González, Sergio ^a   Grau, Josep M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Dermatomyositis; Generalized edema; Inflammatory myopathy; Limb edema

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DERMATOMYOSITIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDEMA; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFARCTION; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MICROANGIOPATHY; MICROINFARCTION; MIDDLE AGED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBCUTANEOUS EDEMA; CASE REPORT; COMPLICATION; FATALITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SKIN DISEASES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DERMATOMYOSITIS; EDEMA; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDNISONE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SKIN DISEASES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84927566717     PISSN: 00490172     EISSN: 1532866X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semarthrit.2014.04.004     Document Type: Article

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