Open AccessJUVENILE DERMATOMYOSITIS
Author(s) -
Sigrid Covaci,
Oana-Maria Farkaş,
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 , disease , dermatology , pathology , muscle disease , autoimmune disease , juvenile , immunology , biology , genetics
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.
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