Severe onset of inflammatory myositis in a child: think to paraneoplastic myositis

• Main Authors: Simone Benvenuto (Author), Giulia Gortani (Author), Rossana Bussani (Author), Federico Poropat (Author), Flora Maria Murru (Author), Marco Carrozzi (Author), Alberto Tommasini (Author), Andrea Taddio (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Juvenile idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (JIIMs) are a group of heterogenous, acquired, autoimmune disorders that affect the muscle. While the association between IIMs and malignancy has been widely reported in adults, cancer-associated myositis (CAM) is rare in children, so t...