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[Facial myositis: a localized form of generalized myositis?]
R Lettry-Trouillat1, T Kuntzer, R C Janzer
1Service de Neurologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Suisse.
Revue Neurologique
|May 26, 1999
Abstract:
We report a case of myositis presenting as an apparently unique progressive facial weakness. The only biological abnormality after an 8-year follow-up was an immunocytoma. Molecular analyses excluded facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy. Based on this single case and a review of the literature, we suggest a continuum between focal myositis and generalized myositis.