These include a photodistributed erythema that becomes progressively poikilodermatous and indurated, periungual telangiectasias, the classic heliotrope rash on the face, pathognomonic Gottron's ...

Dermatomyositis (DM) is an inflammatory condition resulting in proximal myopathy, violaceous (heliotrope) inflammatory changes of the periorbital areas and the eyelids, erythematous urticarial ...

Dermatitis, scaling over the knuckles (Gottron's papules), and the purplish colour (heliotrope) of the eyelids may be clinical clues that one is dealing with dermatomyositis. Creatine kinase (CK ...