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Polymyositis, not polymyalgia rheumatica
N D Hopkinson1, D J Shawe, J M Gumpel
1Department of Rheumatology, Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow, Middlesex.
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
|May 1, 1991
Abstract:
The distinction between polymyalgia rheumatica and polymyositis is important for treatment and prognosis. Four elderly patients were diagnosed and treated for polymyalgia: raised creatine kinase led to muscle biopsy and a diagnosis of polymyositis.