TY - JOUR
T1 - Infantile polymyositis
T2 - A case report
AU - Nagai, Toshiro
AU - Hasegawa, Tomonobu
AU - Saito, Masamine
AU - Hayashi, Shuuhei
AU - Nonaka, Ikuya
PY - 1992/1/1
Y1 - 1992/1/1
N2 - A 10-month-old Japanese boy developed progressive muscle weakness and hypotonia at 3 months of age. Because of striking inflammatory cellular infiltration in his muscle biopsy, he was diagnosed as having infantile polymyositis and was placed on steroid and immunosuppressive medication when he was 10-month-old. His physical condition was not significantly altered, though serum creatine kinase (CK) level was normalized (1,500 iu/l → 90 iu/l). These findings contrast with previous reports documenting improvement with steroid administration.
AB - A 10-month-old Japanese boy developed progressive muscle weakness and hypotonia at 3 months of age. Because of striking inflammatory cellular infiltration in his muscle biopsy, he was diagnosed as having infantile polymyositis and was placed on steroid and immunosuppressive medication when he was 10-month-old. His physical condition was not significantly altered, though serum creatine kinase (CK) level was normalized (1,500 iu/l → 90 iu/l). These findings contrast with previous reports documenting improvement with steroid administration.
KW - Infantile polymyositis
KW - congenital muscular dystrophy
KW - nuclear change
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U2 - 10.1016/S0387-7604(12)80258-0
DO - 10.1016/S0387-7604(12)80258-0
M3 - Article
C2 - 1514657
AN - SCOPUS:0026703468
SN - 0387-7604
VL - 14
SP - 167
EP - 169
JO - Brain and Development
JF - Brain and Development
IS - 3
ER -