Relapsing Polychondritis Following Alopecia Areata

A case of alopecia areata followed by relapsing polychondritis is presented. Similar cases from the literature are reviewed and speculation about the relationship of these diseases is offered. Although the occurrence of these diseases together could be coincidental, an association seems immunologica...

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Autores principales: Starr, John C., Taneja, Nidhika, Brasher, George W.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2905706/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20672055
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/623158
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author Starr, John C.
Taneja, Nidhika
Brasher, George W.
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description A case of alopecia areata followed by relapsing polychondritis is presented. Similar cases from the literature are reviewed and speculation about the relationship of these diseases is offered. Although the occurrence of these diseases together could be coincidental, an association seems immunologically plausible. Thus, relapsing polychondritis might be an unusual systemic manifestation of alopecia areata.
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spelling pubmed-29057062010-07-29 Relapsing Polychondritis Following Alopecia Areata Starr, John C. Taneja, Nidhika Brasher, George W. Case Rep Med Case Report A case of alopecia areata followed by relapsing polychondritis is presented. Similar cases from the literature are reviewed and speculation about the relationship of these diseases is offered. Although the occurrence of these diseases together could be coincidental, an association seems immunologically plausible. Thus, relapsing polychondritis might be an unusual systemic manifestation of alopecia areata. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2010 2010-06-23 /pmc/articles/PMC2905706/ /pubmed/20672055 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/623158 Text en Copyright © 2010 John C. Starr et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Starr, John C.
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Brasher, George W.
Relapsing Polychondritis Following Alopecia Areata
title Relapsing Polychondritis Following Alopecia Areata
title_full Relapsing Polychondritis Following Alopecia Areata
title_fullStr Relapsing Polychondritis Following Alopecia Areata
title_full_unstemmed Relapsing Polychondritis Following Alopecia Areata
title_short Relapsing Polychondritis Following Alopecia Areata
title_sort relapsing polychondritis following alopecia areata
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2905706/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20672055
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/623158
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