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Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Myositis

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A patient with Crohn’s disease developed proximal muscle weakness, increased serum creatine phosphokinase activity and electromyographic abnormalities. A muscle biopsy was non-diagnostic. Although rare, myositis should be included in the differential diagnosis of muscle weakness in patients with inflammatory bowel disease.

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  1. B. Shine Department of Rheumatology, Rambam Medical Center, and H. Schussheim Rheumatology Research Laboratory, The Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, , , , , , IL

    Y. Braun-Moscovici, D. Schapira, A. Balbir-Gurman & A. M. Nahir

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Received: 30 July 1998 / Accepted: 26 January 1999

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Braun-Moscovici, Y., Schapira, D., Balbir-Gurman, A. et al. Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Myositis. Clin Rheumatol 18, 261–263 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s100670050097

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