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Oculopharyngeal myopathy with inflammation and calcinosis: an unusual phenotype.
Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry - 1 Jun 2008
Jenkins T, Al-Sarraj S, Rose M
Abstract excerpt
The case is reported of a patient with progressive proximal and distal weakness, dysphagia, respiratory weakness, calcifications, ptosis and ophthalmoparesis with inflammation, rimmed vacuoles and positive amyloid and ubiquitin on muscle biopsy. The histopathological features fit best with inclusion body myositis, but ophthalmoparesis and ptosis have not previously been described. The clinical phenotype fits best...
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