Abstract
The clinical features of 8 cases with amyopathic dermatomyositis (ADM) wereretrospectively compared with those of 53 cases with typical dermatomyositis ( DM). Incidence of interstitiallung disease, joint pain, fever, concurrent cancer were 4/8, 3/8, 3/8 and 0 in ADM group and those were 40% , 34% , 32% and 11 % in DM group respectively. The prevalence of interstitial lung disease in ADMgroup was significantly higher than that in DM group, which indicates that ADM patient should be properlytreated. Key words: Dermatomyositis; Pneumonia, Interstitial
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