1. Severe Visceral Disease in Subacute Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus
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Geoffrey O. Littlejohn, Napier M. Thomson, Cynthia L. Weinstein, and Stephen Hall
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Pathology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Lupus erythematosus ,Benign disease ,business.industry ,Central nervous system ,Glomerulonephritis ,Dermatology ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Connective tissue disease ,Subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus ,Visceral disease ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,immune system diseases ,medicine ,skin and connective tissue diseases ,business ,Anti-SSA/Ro autoantibodies - Abstract
• Subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus has been heralded as a marker of relatively benign subset of systemic lupus erythematosus. In this article, we describe two cases with severe visceral disease and suggest that it may be less reliable as a predictor of benign disease than was previously accepted. ( Arch Dermatol 1987;123:638-640)
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- 1987
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