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A Case of Acute Viral Myositis
Jong-Hoon Kwak, Kyung-Yil Lee, Ji-Whan Han, Sung-Soo Hwang, Jae-Kyun Huh, Kyong-Su Lee
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1996;39(4):572-576.   Published online April 15, 1996
Diffuse myalgia is common in transient systemic viral infections but overt myositis, with weakness and signs of muscle inflammation, rarely accompanies viral infection in chidren. We describe a 8-year-old boy with severe myalgia and tenderness in both lower extremities, whose unusual skeletal muscle uptake on Technetium-methylene diphosphate bone scan helped to diagnosis of myositis. Clinical course, muscle-derived enzyme studies(AST, ALT,...