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Inflammatory myopathies: narrowing the differential diagnosis
1Department of Rheumatic and Immunologic Diseases, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH 44195, USA. rendtk@ccf.org
Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
|June 19, 2001
Abstract:
Muscle weakness is a feature of numerous conditions, but the muscle weakness of inflammatory myopathies, especially polymyositis and dermatomyositis, is easy to differentiate by specific clinical, laboratory, electromyographic, and histological features.