Acute Benign Dermatomyositis

Acute Benign Lymphocytosis

Etude de deux cas d'Hyperlymphocytose in­fectieuse benigne consernant de deux enfants subfebriles, Sans adenopathies ni Hepato-SplenG---­ megalie confirmee par les examens bi.ologiques et en particulier Etude cytologique de la moele osseuse;  Amelioration clinique et Hematologique de fac;on spontanee sans Traitement. 

Benign pneumatosis intestinalis in a patient with juvenile dermatomyositis.

Juvenile Dermatomyositis Associated with Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia

A link between dermatomyositis and neoplasia has long been suspected. The precise incidence of this association remains controversial, owing to varying criteria used to diagnose dermatomyositis. Although juvenile dermatomyositis is believed to display no association with neoplasm, there have been few reported cases of dermatomyositis associated with tumors of any kind in pediatric age group (1-...

Acute dermatomyositis associated with a staphylococcal infection.

Introduction Polymyositis and dermatomyositis may be asscciated with autoimmune phenomena and with malignancy. The initiating factors are unclear; viral infections have been proposed (Pearson and Bohan, 1977) and a few cases have been associated with bacterial and parasitic infections (Naidoo and Chan, 1975; Kegen, Kimball and Christian, 1974; Greenlee et al., 1975; Samuels and Rietschel, 1976)...

Acute Dermatomyositis Presenting with Pulmonary Manifestations.

Dermatomyositis has been defined as an acute, subacute or chronic disease of unknown aetiology, characterized by oedema, dermatitis and a nonsuppurative inflammation of striated muscle. Since the original description by Wagner (1863) several hundred cases have been described. Many of these have occurred in children. Various drug therapies have been tried, with little success, and the place of s...