Mixed connective tissue disease: Not always an obvious diagnosis

Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) is characterized by a mixture of clinical features. The initial presentation is often incomplete, and the features of MCTD usually develop as the disease evolves. We present a 37‐year‐old female patient with overlapping symptoms. The most plausible diagnosis wa...

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Autores principales: Rahmouni, Safa, Maatallah, Kaouther, Ferjani, Hanene, Abid, Leila, Kaffel, Dhia, Hamdi, Wafa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7562858/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33088533
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3045
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spelling pubmed-75628582020-10-20 Mixed connective tissue disease: Not always an obvious diagnosis Rahmouni, Safa Maatallah, Kaouther Ferjani, Hanene Abid, Leila Kaffel, Dhia Hamdi, Wafa Clin Case Rep Case Reports Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) is characterized by a mixture of clinical features. The initial presentation is often incomplete, and the features of MCTD usually develop as the disease evolves. We present a 37‐year‐old female patient with overlapping symptoms. The most plausible diagnosis was MCTD. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020-06-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7562858/ /pubmed/33088533 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3045 Text en © 2020 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the 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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title_full Mixed connective tissue disease: Not always an obvious diagnosis
title_fullStr Mixed connective tissue disease: Not always an obvious diagnosis
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title_short Mixed connective tissue disease: Not always an obvious diagnosis
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topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7562858/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33088533
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3045
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