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Myositis

Tuesday 23 November 2004

Definition: muscular inflammation or muscular infiltration by inflammatory cells.

Etiology

 infectious myositis

  • viral myositis
  • bacterial myositis
  • parasitic myositis

 inflammatory myopathies
 dysferlin-associated muscular dystrophy