JUVENILE DERMATOMYOSITIS

Revista Romana de PEDIATRIE | Volumul LXV, Nr. 4, An 2016

ISSN 1454-0398 | e-ISSN 2069-6175
ISSN-L 1454-0398
DOI: 10.37897/RJP

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Sigrid Covaci, Oana-Maria Farkas and Alexis-Virgil Cochino

ABSTRACT

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.

Keywords: juvenile dermatomyositis, dermatomyositis sine myositis, muscle weakness, myositis, heliotrope rash, Gottron sign

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