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Muscle involvement in sarcoidosis
  1. Padmanabhan Arjun1,
  2. Rijju Gopinath2,
  3. Bhuvanesh Mahendran3,
  4. Ganesh Balan1
  1. 1 Pulmonology, Kerala Institute of Medical Sciences, Trivandrum, India
  2. 2 Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Kerala Institute of Medical Sciences, Trivandrum, India
  3. 3 Rheumatology, Kerala Institute of Medical Sciences, Trivandrum, India
  1. Correspondence to Dr Padmanabhan Arjun, Pulmonology, Kerala Institute of Medical Sciences, Trivandrum 692059, India; dr.p.arjun{at}gmail.com

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/postgradmedj-2021-140747

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    • Contributors We, the authors, declare hereby that all of us have substantially contributed to the conception and design, drafting this original article and reviewing it critically for important intellectual content. All the authors have also gone through the final version to be published.

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