| RHEUMATO-DERMATOLOGY SYMPOSIUM |
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| Year : 2019 | Volume
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| Issue : 1 | Page : 57-61 |
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Interesting cases in autoimmune connective tissue diseases: Clinical pearls for diagnosis and management
Sajjan N Shenoy
Consultant Immunologist and Rheumatologist, Department of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, KMC Hospitals, Mangalore, Karnataka, India
Correspondence Address:
Sajjan N Shenoy
KMC Hospital, Mangalore, Karnataka
India
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None  | Check |
DOI: 10.4103/CDR.CDR_48_18
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Rheumatological diseases are multisystem in nature and skin is often involved, and mirrors the internal involvement which affords us insight into the disease, both from a diagnostic point of view and also from a pathophysiological point of view. A few clinical cases which were initially perplexing, but subsequently diagnosed as mixed connective tissue disease, dermatomyositis, and polyarteritis nodosa, are being discussed here to highlight this point.
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