Unusual presentation of childhood Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
✍ Scribed by Sathish Kumar; Indira Agarwal
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 418 KB
- Volume
- 5
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1546-0096
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✦ Synopsis
Bullous systemic lupus erythematosus is a rare blistering condition with a distinctive combination of clinical, histological and immunopathologic features that together constitute a unique bullous disease phenotype. It is often associated with autoimmunity to type VII collagen. Here we report a child who presented with bullous systemic lupus erythematosus. Rapid resolution of the blisters occurred following treatment with dapsone.
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