Juvenile Dermatomyositis: A Case Report and Review of Literature

Juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM) is a systemic inflammatory disease involving children, which primarily affects the skin and the musculoskeletal system. The characteristic findings include Gottron papules, heliotrope rash, calcinosis cutis, and symmetric proximal muscle weakness. Histologically, it is...

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Autores principales: Gupta, Pooja, Shruti, Sharma, Chaudhary, Vishnu, Khullar, Geeti, Siraj, Fouzia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Dermatology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6433086/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30937233
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3935
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author Gupta, Pooja
Shruti, Sharma
Chaudhary, Vishnu
Khullar, Geeti
Siraj, Fouzia
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description Juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM) is a systemic inflammatory disease involving children, which primarily affects the skin and the musculoskeletal system. The characteristic findings include Gottron papules, heliotrope rash, calcinosis cutis, and symmetric proximal muscle weakness. Histologically, it is characterized by the presence of lymphocytic vascular inflammation and endothelial swelling. Herein, we report a case of a 10-year-old girl of Indian origin, who presented to us with classical clinical and histological features of JDM.
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spelling pubmed-64330862019-04-01 Juvenile Dermatomyositis: A Case Report and Review of Literature Gupta, Pooja Shruti, Sharma Chaudhary, Vishnu Khullar, Geeti Siraj, Fouzia Cureus Dermatology Juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM) is a systemic inflammatory disease involving children, which primarily affects the skin and the musculoskeletal system. The characteristic findings include Gottron papules, heliotrope rash, calcinosis cutis, and symmetric proximal muscle weakness. Histologically, it is characterized by the presence of lymphocytic vascular inflammation and endothelial swelling. Herein, we report a case of a 10-year-old girl of Indian origin, who presented to us with classical clinical and histological features of JDM. Cureus 2019-01-22 /pmc/articles/PMC6433086/ /pubmed/30937233 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3935 Text en Copyright © 2019, Gupta et al. http://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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title_short Juvenile Dermatomyositis: A Case Report and Review of Literature
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6433086/
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