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Acute concomitant presentation of polymyositis and atypical myasthenia gravis-myositis: A diagnostic challenge.
Abstract
Inflammatory myopathies (IM) [1] and myasthenia gravis (MG) [2] are autoimmune disorders presenting with muscle weakness. Their coexistence is infrequent, and the myasthenia-myositis clinical spectrum has emerged as a novel concept [3]. A 66-year-old woman with postoperative hypothyroidism presented with acute onset muscle pain in limbs starting two weeks earlier.