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REPORT OF A FATAL CASE

DOUGLAS GOLDMAN, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1942;70(5):822-828.

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Widespread inflammatory lesions of skeletal muscle are sufficiently rare to require special notice when they are encountered, particularly when the clinical aspect of the lesions has been entirely overlooked by a number of able clinicians. Inflammatory lesions of muscles are usually classified as (1) primary suppurative myositis, (2) dermatomyositis, (3) neuromyositis, (4) primary myositis fibrosa¹ and (5) progressive myositis ossificans. In addition, the "lymphorrhages" of myasthenia gravis can be considered a form of muscle inflammation. The literature on these conditions consists of relatively few reports of cases except for instances of dermatomyositis, and the cases are classified by descriptive criteria which seem in some instances to be vague and confusing. Dermatomyositis has been studied and an adequate review of the literature presented by Wolf and Wilens² and Wheeler and Harbin.³

REPORT OF CASE

J. K., a Jewish optometrist aged 63 years, was first seen on Aug. 31, . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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