@article {Chatterjee655, author = {Soumya Chatterjee and Richard Prayson and Carol Farver}, title = {Antisynthetase syndrome: Not just an inflammatory myopathy}, volume = {80}, number = {10}, pages = {655--666}, year = {2013}, doi = {10.3949/ccjm.80a.12171}, publisher = {Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine}, abstract = {In recent years, antisynthetase syndrome has been recognized as an important cause of autoimmune inflammatory myopathy in a subset of patients with polymyositis and dermatomyositis. It is associated with serum antibodies to aminoacyl-transfer RNA synthetases and is characterized by a constellation of manifestations, including fever, myositis, interstitial lung disease, {\textquotedblleft}mechanic{\textquoteright}s hands,{\textquotedblright} Raynaud phenomenon, and polyarthritis. Physicians should be familiar with its variety of clinical presentations and should include it in the differential diagnosis in patients presenting with unexplained interstitial lung disease.}, issn = {0891-1150}, URL = {https://www.ccjm.org/content/80/10/655}, eprint = {https://www.ccjm.org/content/80/10/655.full.pdf}, journal = {Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine} }