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Am J Med
November 2017
Department of General Medicine, Chiba University Hospital, Japan.
Eur Neurol
July 1996
Department of Neurology, University Hospital, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel.
Inclusion body myositis affects primarily the proximal muscles but distal limb muscles are involved too in this chronic myopathy. Characteristic histopathologic findings include "rimmed vacuoles', inflammation and typical cytoplasmic and nuclear filamentous inclusions. The patients are usually unresponsive to steroids.
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