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Polymyositis/dermatomyositis are a heterogeneous group of diseases characterised by
skeletal muscle inflammation and necrosis.' 2
Since an excellent clinical description in 1903 by
Steiner of dermatomyositis, which is essentially
still valid,3 much progress has been made
towards our understanding of this group of
diseases. The most widely used clinical classification of idiopathic inflammatory myopathies is
the one proposed by Bohan and Peter in 1975.4
That was a landmark, providing guidelines in
clinical practice to accurate diagnosis of inflammatory myopathies and standardisation of
studies. Nonetheless, the classification was
based on clinical data. In view of recent
histological and immunological studies the classification proposed by Karpati et al in 1987
seems better to fit our current view of such
diseases5 (table 1). In this review we focus on
recent developments in polymyositis/dermatomyositis, analysing separately the currently
considered third major form of inflammatory
myopathy-inclusion body myositis.

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Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 1991, vol. 50, núm. 3, p. 191-195

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Articles publicats en revistes (Medicina)