 Mixed Connective Tissue Disease
"Mixed Connective Tissue Disease" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A syndrome with overlapping clinical features of systemic lupus erythematosus, scleroderma, polymyositis, and Raynaud's phenomenon. The disease is differentially characterized by high serum titers of antibodies to ribonuclease-sensitive extractable (saline soluble) nuclear antigen and a "speckled" epidermal nuclear staining pattern on direct immunofluorescence.
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D008947
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C17.300.540
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| 1990 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Mixed Connective Tissue Disease" by people in Profiles.
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Jawad H, Chung JH, Lynch DA, Newell JD. Radiological approach to interstitial lung disease: a guide for the nonradiologist. Clin Chest Med. 2012 Mar; 33(1):11-26.
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Baron BW, Martin MS, Sucharetza BS, Jeon H, Baron JM. Four patients with both thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura and autoimmune thrombocytopenic purpura: the concept of a mixed immune thrombocytopenia syndrome and indications for plasma exchange. J Clin Apher. 2001; 16(4):179-85.
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Froelich CJ, Wallman J, Skosey JL, Teodorescu M. Clinical value of an integrated ELISA system for the detection of 6 autoantibodies (ssDNA, dsDNA, Sm, RNP/Sm, SSA, and SSB). J Rheumatol. 1990 Feb; 17(2):192-200.
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