[Coexistence of dermatomyositis and macrophagic myofasciitis].
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.
Lazaro
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Service de dermatologie, Hôpital du Haut-Lévêque, CHU de Bordeaux, Pessac.
Doutre
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MS
Coquet
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M
Bouillot
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S
Beylot-Barry
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M
Beylot
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C
D000328:Adult; D015897:Comorbidity; D003882:Dermatomyositis / Q000473:pathology*; D005208:Fasciitis / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007249:Inflammation; D009135:Muscular Diseases / Q000473:pathology*