@article{82cde19373b749a2bf79e3116359fd5b,
title = "Polymyositis: Its presentation, morbidity and mortality",
abstract = "The present report analyses prognostic factors in 118 patients in whom criteria for the diagnosis of polymyositis are clearly defined. A relatively favourable prognosis, both for death and disability, has been demonstrated and factors of prognostic significance identified. Treatment is discussed, mean follow up 6 yr.",
author = "R. Devere and Bradley, {W. G.}",
note = "Funding Information: We wish to thank Dr. R. J. T. Pennington and Mrs. Mary Parsons for the serum creatine kinase estimations, Dr. Alan Cassels-Smith for other biochemical estimations, Dr. Tom Bird for estimations of skeletal muscle and other antibodies, and Dr. Roger Parsons, Mrs. Valerie Giles and Miss M. Jenkison for carrying out the lymphocyte cytotoxicity studies. We are grateful to all the neurologists and other physicians in the Newcastle General Hospital and Royal Victoria Infirmary for allowing us to have access to their patients. In particular we wish to thank Professor J. N. Walton, who had seen most of the patients in this study, for comments upon the manuscript and for continuing advice and support. We are grateful to the Graphics Department of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne for the illustrations. R. DeVere was the holder of a Medical Research Council Research Registrarship in the Muscular Dystrophy Group Research Laboratories, Newcastle upon Tyne. The study was supported by grants from the Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain, the Muscular Dystrophy Associations of America, Inc., and the Medical Research Council.",
year = "1975",
doi = "10.1093/brain/98.4.637",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "98",
pages = "637--666",
journal = "Brain",
issn = "0006-8950",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
number = "4",
}