Rowell Syndrome in a Middle-Aged Woman: A Case Report

Rowell syndrome (RS) is characterized by the presentation of lupus erythematosus (LE) with erythema multiforme (EM)-like lesions. It is thought to display a characteristic serologic pattern consisting of a "speckled-type" antinuclear antibody (ANA), positive anti-Ro/SSA or anti-La/SSB, or...

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Autores principales: Lee, Diane, Waseh, Shayan, Motaparthi, Kiran, Hsu, Sylvia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Dermatology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10305509/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37388608
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.39631
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author Lee, Diane
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description Rowell syndrome (RS) is characterized by the presentation of lupus erythematosus (LE) with erythema multiforme (EM)-like lesions. It is thought to display a characteristic serologic pattern consisting of a "speckled-type" antinuclear antibody (ANA), positive anti-Ro/SSA or anti-La/SSB, or positive rheumatoid factor (RF). We report the case of a patient with subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus (SCLE) who presented with EM-like lesions responsive to oral corticosteroids.
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spelling pubmed-103055092023-06-29 Rowell Syndrome in a Middle-Aged Woman: A Case Report Lee, Diane Waseh, Shayan Motaparthi, Kiran Hsu, Sylvia Cureus Dermatology Rowell syndrome (RS) is characterized by the presentation of lupus erythematosus (LE) with erythema multiforme (EM)-like lesions. It is thought to display a characteristic serologic pattern consisting of a "speckled-type" antinuclear antibody (ANA), positive anti-Ro/SSA or anti-La/SSB, or positive rheumatoid factor (RF). We report the case of a patient with subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus (SCLE) who presented with EM-like lesions responsive to oral corticosteroids. Cureus 2023-05-29 /pmc/articles/PMC10305509/ /pubmed/37388608 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.39631 Text en Copyright © 2023, Lee et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Lee, Diane
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Motaparthi, Kiran
Hsu, Sylvia
Rowell Syndrome in a Middle-Aged Woman: A Case Report
title Rowell Syndrome in a Middle-Aged Woman: A Case Report
title_full Rowell Syndrome in a Middle-Aged Woman: A Case Report
title_fullStr Rowell Syndrome in a Middle-Aged Woman: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Rowell Syndrome in a Middle-Aged Woman: A Case Report
title_short Rowell Syndrome in a Middle-Aged Woman: A Case Report
title_sort rowell syndrome in a middle-aged woman: a case report
topic Dermatology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10305509/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37388608
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.39631
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