Eyelid Discoid Lupus Erythematosus Misdiagnosed as Leishmaniasis

Discoid Lupus Erythematosus Presenting as Upper Eyelid Edema and Erythema.

Discoid Lupus Erythematosus (DLE) is an autoimmune disorder that usually occurs on sun exposed areas of head and neck. Infrequently it could be presented by palpebral involvement and rarely unilateral upper eye lid edema and erythema have been reported as the sole manifestation of DLE. We describe a 38-year-old woman with chronic left upper eye lid edema and erythema from one year ago which was...

Unilateral eyelid involvement as single presentation of discoid lupus erythematosus: a clinical conundrum.

We report a case of a 30-year-old woman with discoid lupus erythematosus (DLE) involving only a single lower eyelid. The diagnostic delay is explained by the unspecific clinical and histopathology picture and lack of specific changes in the first biopsy specimen taken. The diagnosis was based on later histological and immunological studies. Palpebral involvement has rarely been reported as the ...

Discoid lupus erythematosus: a profile.

OBJECTIVE To determine the demographic data, clinical pattern and therapeutic outcome in patients with discoid lupus erythematosus (DLE). STUDY DESIGN Case series. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY The Department of Dermatology, Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences, Jamshoro, from January 2004 to December 2008. METHODOLOGY Patients of either gender aged above 18 years diagnosed wit...

Chronic cutaneous (discoid) lupus erythematosus.

Dermoscopy of discoid lupus erythematosus

Cite this article as: Jha AK, Sonthalia S, Sarkar R. Dermoscopy of discoid lupus erythematosus. Indian Dermatol Online J 2016;7:458. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non‐commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creati...