DERMATOMYOSITIS: A CLINICOPATHOLOGIC STUDY

Abstract

Dermatomyositis was first described by Wagner¹in 1887. Uvericht²and Hepp³described similar involvements of the muscles in 1881, the former naming the condition dermatomyositis. This disease entity was first described in the United States by Jacoby⁴under the term of subacute progressive poliomyositis in 1888, and by Herrick⁵as poliomyositis acuta in 1896. In 1905, Steiner⁶collected all the cases reported in the literature, giving an accurate histologic description. This case is reported because a complete autopsy was performed which presented unusual features not commonly found in this condition. REPORT OF CASE History.— R. G., a white woman, aged 24, was admitted to the Montefiore Hospital, Sept. 22, 1926, complaining of pains in the extremities and heart, inability to move the head and shoulder, shortness of breath, weakness, and redness of neck and chest as well as edema of the extremities. The condition