Discordance of skin and muscle involvement in dermatomyositis.
The skin manifestations of dermatomyositis infrequently occur without the myositis. A 24-year-old woman presented with concordance of the skin and muscle components of dermatomyositis, followed by a remission of the myositis with a persistence of significant rash for 17 years, finally presenting with a flare of both skin and muscle components together. Clinicians should be alert to the recurrence of an underlying myositis at any time.
D000328:Adult; D001706:Biopsy; D003882:Dermatomyositis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009132:Muscles / Q000473:pathology; D012008:Recurrence; D012867:Skin / Q000473:pathology; D013997:Time Factors