Open AccessJUVENILE DERMATOMYOSITIS
Author(s) -
Sigrid Covaci,
Oana-Maria Farkas,
Alexis-Virgil Cochino
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
romanian journal of pediatrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2069-6175
pISSN - 1454-0398
DOI - 10.37897/rjp.2016.4.8
Subject(s) - juvenile dermatomyositis , dermatomyositis , medicine , inflammation , dermatology , pathology , disease , immunology
Juvenile dermatomyositis is a severe multisystemic autoimmune disease of uncertain origin, based on chronic perivascular inflammation, involving mainly the skin and the muscles. We present a dermatomyositis case with classical skin involvement, where muscle damage occurred more than a year after disease onset.