Myositis

Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies; Infectious Myositis; Inflammatory Muscle Diseases; Inflammatory Myopathies, Idiopathic; Muscle Diseases, Inflammatory; Myopathies, Idiopathic Inflammatory; Myopathy, Inflammatory; Myositis, Proliferative
Inflammation of skeletal muscle (MUSCLE, SKELETAL). Infectious, autoimmune, and paraneoplastic processes represent some of the more common conditions that may be associated with myositis. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed., pp 1402-13)