TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Inflammatory Myopathies A1 - Greenberg, Steven A. A1 - Amato, Anthony A. A2 - Jameson, J. Larry A2 - Fauci, Anthony S. A2 - Kasper, Dennis L. A2 - Hauser, Stephen L. A2 - Longo, Dan L. A2 - Loscalzo, Joseph PY - 2018 T2 - Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 20e AB - This chapter focuses on the major types of inflammatory myopathies (IM), including dermatomyositis (DM), polymyositis (PM), immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy (IMNM), antisynthetase syndrome (ASS), and inclusion body myositis (IBM) (Table 358-1). Other IM include those caused by infection, eosinophilic myositis and granulomatous myositis. Of note, inflammatory cell infiltrates can also be occasionally seen in muscle biopsies in hereditary (e.g., muscular dystrophies, metabolic myopathies) and toxic myopathies. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1175162118 ER -