1. reported on the occurrence of polymyositis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, but their patients did not have dermatological manifestations. It is possible that our patient had two separate diseases, both rheumatoid arthritis and dermatomyositis. The complete remission of symptoms on withdrawal of penicillamine favours a diagnosis of drug-induced disease;Pitkeathly; Coomes,1966
2. Drug-induced systemic lupus erythematosus is a well-recognized complication ofpenicillamine therapy (Walshe, 1968; Day and Golding;Camus,1974
3. Penicillamineinduced polymyositis. Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift;Bettendorf, U.; Neuhaus, R.,1974
4. Myasthenia gravis associated with penicillamine treatment for rheumatoid arthritis;Bucknall, R.C.; Dixon, A.St J.; Glick, E.N.; Woodland, J.; Zutshi, D.W.;British MedicalJournal,1975
5. A hundred cases of rheumatoid arthritis treated with D-penicillamine;Camus, J.P.; Crouzet, J.; Guillien, P.; Benichou, C.; Lievre, J.A.;Annales de Medecine Interne,1974