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Dermatomyositis is a rare inflammatory disease of muscle of unknown cause resulting in muscle weakness and pain in young- or middle-aged people. It is a member of a category of diseases that can be grouped together as idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIMs), the other members of which are polymyositis and inclusion body myositis (IBM).
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Pachner, A.R. (2012). The Prototypic Neuroimmunological Muscle Disease: Dermatomyositis. In: A Primer of Neuroimmunological Disease. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-2188-7_11
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