A Patient With Adult Erythermalgia: Evidence Suggesting an Autoimmune Etiology
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Secondary erythermalgia associated with an autoimmune disorder of undetermined significance.
A 50-year-old female patient is described with an acquired, persisting and yet incurable erythermalgia featured by symmetric burning pain and red congestion of the extremities secondary to cutaneous vasculitis. A weakly positive antinuclear antibody titer and high titers of antibodies against gastric parietal mucosa cells pointed to an underlying but unclassifiable autoimmune disorder. It is co...
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عنوان ژورنال: The American Journal of the Medical Sciences
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0002-9629
DOI: 10.1097/maj.0b013e31812f65e7