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Focal, steroid responsive myositis causing dropped head syndrome

✍ Scribed by Iftah Biran; Oren Cohen; Judith Diment; Amos Peyser; Roy Bahnof; Israel Steiner

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Weight: 201 KB
Volume: 22
Category: Article
ISSN: 0148-639X
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4598(199906)22:6<769::aid-mus15>3.0.co;2-d

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✦ Synopsis

The dropped head syndrome, which occurs in a variety of neuromuscular disorders, is usually not due to an inflammatory process and generally either self-limited or nonresponsive to therapy. We present an 80-year-old woman who developed progressive neck weakness over a few months due to a focal and restricted inflammatory process involving the neck extensor muscles. She responded dramatically to treatment with immunosuppressive therapy.

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