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Inclusion Body Myositis Associated With Celiac Sprue and Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura

[South Med J 96(7):721-723, 2003. © 2003 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins]


Figure 1. Severe diffuse muscle atrophy at initial clinical presentation.

Figure 2. Small bowel biopsy specimen with characteristic findings of celiac sprue. A, villous atrophy (black arrow) and subepithelial inflammatory infiltrate (white arrow); B, intraepithelial lymphocyte (arrow).

Figure 3. Deltoid muscle biopsy specimen showing rimmed vacuole characteristic of inclusion body myositis (arrow).