HIV-1 Associated Myopathies: Follow-up

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Further Reading

Keywords

acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, AIDS, polymyositis, dermatomyositis, zidovudine myopathy, AZT myopathy, rhabdomyolysis, nemaline rod myopathy, HIV wasting syndrome with type II muscle fiber atrophy, local neoplasm, local infection, myasthenic syndrome and chronic fatigue, diffuse infiltrative lymphocytosis syndrome, DILS

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Niranjan N Singh, MD, DNB, Fellow in Neurophysiology, Department of Neurology, St Louis University School of Medicine
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