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Dermatomyositis
Practical Aspects
Arch Dermatol. 2002;138:114-116.
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IN THE current issue of the ARCHIVES, Caproni and associates at several
Italian universities have combined their data on a large group of patients
with dermatomyositis seen during a 10-year period.1
They describe a subset of these patients whom they identify as having amyopathic
dermatomyositis, and these patients are the focus of the analysis. Our group
at the Department of Dermatology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine,
Winston-Salem, NC, has had a long-standing interest in this problem, as reflected
in our published series.2-3 We
are delighted to see the expanding interest in this important problem for
dermatologists.
Dermatomyositis is a relatively rare disease usually classified with
the connective tissue vascular diseases. It is particularly important to dermatologists,
because the disease has characteristic dermatologic findings that usually
precede the onset of muscle disease. Dermatomyositis occurs in a bimodal age
distribution affecting children and very young adults and then affecting middle-aged
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