HCV and dermatomyositis: report of 5 cases of dermatomyositis in patients with HCV infection.

: The authors report five cases of dermatomyositis in which positivity for hepatitis C virus was ascertained. A virus-related (ECHO virus, Coxsackie) dermatomyositis is known, but a hepatitis virus C-related dermatomyositis was reported only in one case in a Letter to the Editor of Journal of Rheumatology (1994).