What caused a 14-year-old girl to develop chronic, intractable light-sensitive skin eruptions on her face, upper body, and extremities? That's what Ruth Ann Vleugels, MD, MPH, of Harvard Medical ...
Dermatomyositis is a rare muscle disease that causes inflammation of the muscles, skin, and blood vessels. It may also affect other organs, such as the heart and lungs. Dermatomyositis belongs to a ...
Top row: Baseline with dark red erythema of the upper lateral arms (left) versus last visit with pink erythema and decreased surface area from baseline (right). Bottom row: baseline with dark red ...
DESTIN, Fla. — In a session here at Congress of Clinical Rheumatology, Joseph F. Merola, MD, MMSc, of Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, shared the dermatology approach to ...
Hereditary fibrosing poikiloderma with tendon contractures, myopathy, and pulmonary fibrosis (POIKTMP; hereditary sclerosing poikiloderma with tendon, muscle and pulmonary involvement). All the ...
Classic DM (CDM) presents with pathognomonic cutaneous findings and progressive, symmetric proximal muscle weakness. Cutaneous disease usually precedes the appearance of myositis by 3–6 months in ...
Poikiloderma with Neutropenia (PN, Clericuzio-type Poikiloderma with Neutropenia). The most frequent recurrent mutations, c.531delA, c.496delA and c.179delC, reflect three geographical clusters.
What is the differential diagnosis for a formerly active and healthy 70-year-old woman with worsening proximal weakness, torticollis, and a widespread raised red rash across her cheeks bilaterally?
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