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Benign acute childhood myositis in an Accident and Emergency setting
1 Department of Accident and Emergency Medicine, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, UK
2 Specialist Virology Centre, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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Dr L Rennie
Accident and Emergency Department, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Sciennes Road, Edinburgh EH9 1LF, UK; louise.rennie{at}kierto.com
Four children presented to the Accident and Emergency department of the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh during seven days in February 2003. They shared a strikingly similar clinical picture with debilitating muscle pain in their calves. This paper discusses their clinical course and presents a literature review of the problem.
Abbreviations: BACM, benign acute childhood myositis; CMV, cytomegalovirus; CPK, creatinine phosphokinase; EBV, Ebstein-Barr virus; ESR, erythrocyte sedimentation rate; RSV, respiratory syncitial virus
Keywords: myositis; BACM
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