Isotretinoin-induced acute severe myopathy involving pelvic girdle muscles: A case report

Oral isotretinoin has been in widespread use for more than three decades. It causes numerous side effects; skin and mucous membrane being commonly involved. Musculoskeletal adverse effects are also known to occur, but pelvic girdle myopathy is rarely reported. We report myopathy involving pelvic gir...

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Autores principales: Sameem, Farah, Semira
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Drug Watch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5051260/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27721552
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7613.190764
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description Oral isotretinoin has been in widespread use for more than three decades. It causes numerous side effects; skin and mucous membrane being commonly involved. Musculoskeletal adverse effects are also known to occur, but pelvic girdle myopathy is rarely reported. We report myopathy involving pelvic girdle muscles in a young male who received oral isotretinoin for folliculitis decalvans.
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spelling pubmed-50512602016-10-07 Isotretinoin-induced acute severe myopathy involving pelvic girdle muscles: A case report Sameem, Farah Semira, Indian J Pharmacol Drug Watch Oral isotretinoin has been in widespread use for more than three decades. It causes numerous side effects; skin and mucous membrane being commonly involved. Musculoskeletal adverse effects are also known to occur, but pelvic girdle myopathy is rarely reported. We report myopathy involving pelvic girdle muscles in a young male who received oral isotretinoin for folliculitis decalvans. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC5051260/ /pubmed/27721552 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7613.190764 Text en Copyright: © 2016 Indian Journal of Pharmacology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title Isotretinoin-induced acute severe myopathy involving pelvic girdle muscles: A case report
title_full Isotretinoin-induced acute severe myopathy involving pelvic girdle muscles: A case report
title_fullStr Isotretinoin-induced acute severe myopathy involving pelvic girdle muscles: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Isotretinoin-induced acute severe myopathy involving pelvic girdle muscles: A case report
title_short Isotretinoin-induced acute severe myopathy involving pelvic girdle muscles: A case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5051260/
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