Juvenile dermatomyositis in a 4‐year‐old Kenyan girl

To our knowledge, this is the first case report of juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM) in Tanzania. It demonstrates that the characteristic cutaneous findings of JDM may easily be overlooked, especially on dark skin, and the difficulty of clinical management in resource‐constrained settings.

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Autores principales: Grijsen, Marlous L., Mchaile, Deborah, Geut, Inge, Olomi, Raimos, Nwako, Maitseo, Requena, Luis, Howlett, William P., Mavura, Daudi R., Dekker, Marieke C. J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5290499/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28174638
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.816
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author Grijsen, Marlous L.
Mchaile, Deborah
Geut, Inge
Olomi, Raimos
Nwako, Maitseo
Requena, Luis
Howlett, William P.
Mavura, Daudi R.
Dekker, Marieke C. J.
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Mchaile, Deborah
Geut, Inge
Olomi, Raimos
Nwako, Maitseo
Requena, Luis
Howlett, William P.
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Dekker, Marieke C. J.
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spelling pubmed-52904992017-02-07 Juvenile dermatomyositis in a 4‐year‐old Kenyan girl Grijsen, Marlous L. Mchaile, Deborah Geut, Inge Olomi, Raimos Nwako, Maitseo Requena, Luis Howlett, William P. Mavura, Daudi R. Dekker, Marieke C. J. Clin Case Rep Case Reports To our knowledge, this is the first case report of juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM) in Tanzania. It demonstrates that the characteristic cutaneous findings of JDM may easily be overlooked, especially on dark skin, and the difficulty of clinical management in resource‐constrained settings. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017-01-17 /pmc/articles/PMC5290499/ /pubmed/28174638 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.816 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Grijsen, Marlous L.
Mchaile, Deborah
Geut, Inge
Olomi, Raimos
Nwako, Maitseo
Requena, Luis
Howlett, William P.
Mavura, Daudi R.
Dekker, Marieke C. J.
Juvenile dermatomyositis in a 4‐year‐old Kenyan girl
title Juvenile dermatomyositis in a 4‐year‐old Kenyan girl
title_full Juvenile dermatomyositis in a 4‐year‐old Kenyan girl
title_fullStr Juvenile dermatomyositis in a 4‐year‐old Kenyan girl
title_full_unstemmed Juvenile dermatomyositis in a 4‐year‐old Kenyan girl
title_short Juvenile dermatomyositis in a 4‐year‐old Kenyan girl
title_sort juvenile dermatomyositis in a 4‐year‐old kenyan girl
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5290499/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28174638
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.816
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