title: [Coexistence of dermatomyositis and macrophagic myofasciitis].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  An inflammatory myopathy, characterised by joint and muscle pain, chronic asthenia, with infiltration of peri-fascicular epimysium, perimysium and endomysium by cells of the macrophagic line, macrophagic myofasciitis is often associated with other, generally auto-immune, affections. However, the coexistence with another inflammatory myopathy is relatively rare.
  
  
  METHODS
  A 29 year-old woman presented with 2 distinct inflammatory myopathies, a macrophagic myofasciitis and a dermatomyositis, which had appeared a few years after.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In the rare cases in which 2 inflammatory myopathies are combined, the precise relationship between them is unknown, an individual susceptibility to developing muscle diseases is suggested.
authors.affiliation: Service de dermatologie, Hôpital du Haut-Lévêque, CHU de Bordeaux, Pessac.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lazaro
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Doutre
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Coquet
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bouillot
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Beylot-Barry
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Beylot
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015897:Comorbidity; D003882:Dermatomyositis / Q000473:pathology*; D005208:Fasciitis / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007249:Inflammation; D009135:Muscular Diseases / Q000473:pathology*