A subacute or chronic inflammatory disease of muscle and skin, marked by proximal muscle weakness and a characteristic skin rash. The illness occurs with approximately equal frequency in children and adults. The skin lesions usually take the form of a purplish rash (or less often an exfoliative dermatitis) involving the nose, cheeks, forehead, upper trunk, and arms. The disease is associated with a complement mediated intramuscular microangiopathy, leading to loss of capillaries, muscle ischemia, muscle-fiber necrosis, and perifascicular atrophy. The childhood form of this disease tends to evolve into a systemic vasculitis. Dermatomyositis may occur in association with malignant neoplasms. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, pp1405-6)
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Polymyxin B -- therapeutic use : Endotoxemia and endotoxin shock : disease, diagnosis and therapy / volume editors, Claudio Ronco, Pasquale Piccinni, Mitchell H. Rosner
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Polynesia -- Biography. : The cyclopedia of Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Tahiti, and the Cook Islands
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Boats and boating in missionary work -- Polynesia. : From island to island in the South Seas ; or, The work of a missionary ship / comp. by George Cousins ... ; with route map and numerous illustrations
Chiefdoms -- Polynesia. : Leadership and change in the Western Pacific : essays presented to Sir Raymond Firth on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday / edited by Richard Feinberg, Karen Ann Watson-Gegeo
Polynesia -- Civilization -- History. : Man on the Rim / written and presented by Alan Thorne ; produced by Anthony Buckley ; music by Peter Best ; directed by Robert Raymond
