PMID- 11195243
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20010315
LR  - 20220311
IS  - 0803-5253 (Print)
IS  - 0803-5253 (Linking)
VI  - 89
IP  - 12
DP  - 2000 Dec
TI  - Clinical features, laboratory findings and differential diagnosis of benign acute 
      childhood myositis.
PG  - 1493-4
AB  - We report clinical and laboratory data from 32 children with benign acute 
      childhood myositis (BACM), children who presented with calf tenderness and gait 
      abnormality. Laboratory evidence of a viral infection was evident in 23 patients, 
      while serum creatine phosphokinase was uniformly increased (558 to 6800 U/L). 
      Twenty-five patients (78.1%) were given a diagnosis other than BACM by their 
      general practitioner or paediatrician. All patients made a rapid recovery within 
      one week. We conclude that BACM should be encountered among the main causes of 
      sudden-onset gait abnormality in young children.
FAU - Zafeiriou, D I
AU  - Zafeiriou DI
AD  - 1st Pediatric Clinic, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. 
      jeff@med.auth.gr
FAU - Katzos, G
AU  - Katzos G
FAU - Gombakis, N
AU  - Gombakis N
FAU - Kontopoulos, E E
AU  - Kontopoulos EE
FAU - Tsantali, C
AU  - Tsantali C
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Norway
TA  - Acta Paediatr
JT  - Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992)
JID - 9205968
RN  - EC 2.7.3.2 (Creatine Kinase)
SB  - IM
MH  - Child
MH  - Child, Preschool
MH  - Creatine Kinase/blood
MH  - Diagnosis, Differential
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Myositis/*diagnosis/*physiopathology
MH  - Retrospective Studies
EDAT- 2001/02/24 12:00
MHDA- 2001/03/17 10:01
CRDT- 2001/02/24 12:00
PHST- 2001/02/24 12:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2001/03/17 10:01 [medline]
PHST- 2001/02/24 12:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1080/080352500456714 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Acta Paediatr. 2000 Dec;89(12):1493-4. doi: 10.1080/080352500456714.