Benign acute childhood myositis: Difference between revisions

in 1957 Lundberg reported on a group of patients with a condition he named ''myalgia cruris epidemica'',<ref>{{cite journal| author=Lundberg A |title= Myalgia cruris epidemica |journal= Acta Paediatr (Stockh)| year=1957| volume=46 |issue=1 |pages=18–31| doi=10.1111/j.1651-2227.1957.tb08627.x |PMID=13410584}}</ref> seemingly the first description of BACM. Other terms later used include ''influenza-associated myositis, viral myositis, acute myositis''<ref name=azevedo/> Middleton and colleagues reported on BACM as ''severe myositis after influenza'' in 1970.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Middleton PJ, Alexander RM, Szymanski MT| title=Severe myositis during recovery from influenza |journal= Lancet |year=1970 |volume=2| issue=7672 |pages=533–5 |doi= 10.1016/s0140-6736(70)91343-7| PMID=4195201}}</ref> Viral myositis may occur also in later years.