TY - JOUR T1 - Chronic focal polymyositis in the adult JF - Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry JO - J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry SP - 419 LP - 425 DO - 10.1136/jnnp.44.5.419 VL - 44 IS - 5 AU - N E Bharucha AU - J A Morgan-Hughes Y1 - 1981/05/01 UR - http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/44/5/419.abstract N2 - Four patients with chronic focal polymyositis are described. Treatment with steroids appeared to halt clinical progression. The clinical features in all four cases were so strikingly similar as to constitute a syndrome which can be mistaken for muscular dystrophy or spinal muscular atrophy unless investigated fully. ER -