1. [Overlap syndrome].
- Author
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Parente J, Mathurdas P, Wandschneider L, Aranha J, and Siopa L
- Subjects
- Female, Humans, Middle Aged, Syndrome, Autoimmune Diseases pathology, Polymyositis pathology, Scleroderma, Localized pathology
- Abstract
The overlap syndromes are characterized by the occurrence in the same patient of two or more autoimmune diseases. The overlap syndrome between scleroderma and polymyositis is rare. We describe a case of a 58-year-old woman in which the clinical expression, the effect of therapy and the evolution, support the concept that this syndrome is a distinct clinical entity in the spectrum of autoimmune disease.
- Published
- 2011