Myopathies, An Issue of Rheumatic Disease Clinics

Robert L. Wortmann (Author)

9781455705030, Elsevier Health Sciences

Hardback, published 12 May 2011

192 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 1.9 cm, 0.41 kg

This issue of Rheumatic Disease Clinics provides important updates in myopathies.  The following essential topics are covered: clinical features, pathophysiology, and treatment of polymyositis and dermatomyositis; inclusion body myositis; metabolic myopathies; drug-induced myopathies; muscular dystrophies and neurologic diseases; laboratory testing and imaging; electrophysiological studies; metabolic and genetic testing; and pathology.

Subject Areas: Rheumatology [MJM]