RELAPSING EOSINOPHILIC PERIMYOSITIS
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 7 (2) , 199-205
Abstract
Two patients with a syndrome of relapsing myalgia are described. In both cases nonspecific inflammatory features were present and electromyography disclosed a myositic pattern in one. Muscle biopsy in both patients showed a perimysial infiltrate of eosinophils although peripheral eosinophilia was only noted in 1 patient. In each, relapse occurred after a recovery phase, but eventually recovery was complete, spontaneously in one, and after therapy in the other. The known causes of eosinophilic myositis are reviewed, with emphasis on a companion with the myositis of eosinophilic fascitis (Shulman''s syndrome). Because the cases exhibited distinctive features, this new syndrome should be considered in the differential diagnosis of any eosinophilic myositis.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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