title: Recent advances in the morphology of myositis.
abstract: Myositis in man may be divided into infectious and non-infectious forms. The myopathologist more often deals with the latter forms which comprise dermatomyositis/polymyositis, inclusion body myositis, mixed connective tissue disease/collagenoses, and granulomatous myopathies. Modern morphological techniques as enzyme-histochemistry, electron microscopy, immunohistology, and morphometry are of different value in various forms of myositis, but are often indispensable techniques in up-to-date diagnostic work up of a myositis.
authors.forename: H H
authors.initials: HH
authors.lastname: Goebel
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Trautmann
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Dippold
mesh_terms: D003882:Dermatomyositis / Q000473:pathology; D006099:Granuloma / Q000473:pathology; D006651:Histocytochemistry; D006801:Humans; D007120:Immunochemistry; D002479:Inclusion Bodies / Q000648:ultrastructure; D008947:Mixed Connective Tissue Disease / Q000473:pathology; D009135:Muscular Diseases / Q000473:pathology; D009220:Myositis / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D014777:Virus Diseases / Q000150:complications