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Current concepts in the idiopathic inflammatory myopathies: polymyositis, dermatomyositis, and related disorders.

Plotz PH, Dalakas M, Leff RL, Love LA, Miller FW, Cronin ME.

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Update on the use of intravenous immune globulin in the treatment of patients with inflammatory muscle disease.

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[Autoantibodies and their clinical significance in idiopathic inflammatory myopathies; polymyositis/dermatomyositis and related conditions]

Hirakata M.

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A systematic review of adult-onset clinically amyopathic dermatomyositis (dermatomyositis siné myositis): a missing link within the spectrum of the idiopathic inflammatory myopathies.

Gerami P, Schope JM, McDonald L, Walling HW, Sontheimer RD.

J Am Acad Dermatol. 2006 Apr;54(4):597-613. Epub 2006 Jan 23. Review.PMID: 16546580 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Idiopathic inflammatory myopathy: autoantibody update.

Targoff IN.

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Targoff IN.

J Invest Dermatol. 1993 Jan;100(1):116S-123S. Review.PMID: 8423380 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies.

Dimachkie MM, Barohn RJ.

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Newly identified autoantibodies: relationship to idiopathic inflammatory myopathy subsets and pathogenesis.

Gunawardena H, Betteridge ZE, McHugh NJ.

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[Cellular immunity and the autoantibody system in polymyositis and dermatomyositis]

Ljubicić N, Cikes N.

Lijec Vjesn. 1991 Mar-Apr;113(3-4):95-9. Review. Croatian. PMID: 1890925 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Inflammatory myopathies.

Kingston WJ, Moxley RT 3rd.

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[Inflammatory muscle diseases: dermatomyositis, polymyositis, and inclusion body myositis]

Genth E.

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Update on idiopathic inflammatory myopathies.

Briani C, Doria A, Sarzi-Puttini P, Dalakas MC.

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Dermatomyositis. Diagnosis and evaluation of dermatomyositis, polymyositis, and inclusion-body myositis.

Krajnc I.

Adv Exp Med Biol. 1999;455:181-6. Review.PMID: 10599341 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Classification criteria for the idiopathic inflammatory myopathies.

Targoff IN, Miller FW, Medsger TA Jr, Oddis CV.

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Clinical and serological characteristics of 125 Dutch myositis patients. Myositis specific autoantibodies aid in the differential diagnosis of the idiopathic inflammatory myopathies.

Hengstman GJ, Brouwer R, Egberts WT, Seelig HP, Jongen PJ, van Venrooij WJ, van Engelen BG.

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Eymard B.

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[Dermatomyositis and polymyositis: clinical aspects and treatment]

Hachulla E.

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[New autoantibodies in dermatomyositis]

Bielsa I.

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Animal models in myositis.

Katsumata Y, Ascherman DP.

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[Idiopathic myositis]

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