ARTICLES Correlation of muscle biopsy, clinical course ...

changes in multiple skeletal muscles. The first report of an inflammatory muscle disease by Wagner in 1863 described a patient who likely had dermatomyositis (DM). Subse-quently, it was recognized that inflammatory myopathies can also occur without cutane-ous lesions.1 In 1956, nearly a century after Wagner’s report, Eaton reviewed clinical, ................
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