Rheumatology: Current Research
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Department of Rheumatology, University of Health Sciences Izmir Bozyaka Education and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey

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• Case Report   
  Case Report on Myositis: A Challenge in Classifying Idiopathic Inflammatory Myositis
  Author(s): Mete Kara*, Muge Mercan Kara2 and Gulden Diniz3
  
  Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies (IIM) are rare chronic inflammatory diseases whose etiologies are not clearly known, which particularly involve muscles, and which can also affect many other organs. There are many subgroups of inflammatory myositis under the roof of IIM, and there are intermediate form cases which do not comply with these. A 85-year-old female patient presented to our clinic with the complaints of prevalent muscle pain that started 15 days ago and increased progressively, weakness in arms and legs, and difficulty to swallow. Muscle biopsy was performed in the patient whose elevated muscle enzymes and electromyography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) findings were consistent with inflammatory myositis. Although the histopathological examination of muscle biopsy was consistent with inflammatory myositis, it did not completely comply with any of the known.. View More»
  DOI: 10.35841/2161-1149.23.13.332

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