Pulmonary fibrosis during a case of dermatomyositis
Level, M.C.; Level, G.; Lefort, A.; Ferrand, O.
La Semaine des Hopitaux Organe Fonde Par l'Association d'Enseignement Medical des Hopitaux de Paris 55(41-42): 1944-1946
1979
ISSN/ISBN: 0037-1777 PMID: 231321 Document Number: 146906
The authors describe the case of a pulmonary interstitial fibrosis, the discovery of which preceeded the skin and muscular manifestations of dermatomyositis which was confirmed by a muscular biopsy. The aetiopathogenesis of the pulmonary disorder is not well known, nevertheless an immunological mechanism demonstrated in the experimental myositis is suggested but has yet to be proved.