Lupus erythematosus and vitiligo are diseases of autoimmune origin. Reports in the literature suggest patients are more likely to suffer more than 1 autoimmune disease (30% of patients with generalized vitiligo have another autoimmune disease).1 However, there are few reports of cutaneous lupus erythematosus in association with vitiligo. We describe a 42-year-old woman with no family history of...

Lupus erythematosus and vitiligo are diseases of autoimmune origin. Reports in the literature suggest patients are more likely to suffer more than 1 autoimmune disease (30% of patients with generalized vitiligo have another autoimmune disease).1 However, there are few reports of cutaneous lupus erythematosus in association with vitiligo. We describe a 42-year-old woman with no family history of...

Ocular complications associated with cutaneous lupus erythematosus (CLE) are less studied compared with those ones associated with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). The main ocular sites involved in patients affected by discoid lupus erythematosus (DLE) are eyelids followed by orbit and periorbit, the least being cornea. The most common complications are blepharitis usually affecting the lowe...

To inform our ongoing efforts to develop defining features to be incorporated into a novel set of classification criteria for discoid lupus erythematosus (DLE), we conducted a literature review using the Ovid MEDLINE database. A search was performed to identify studies reporting criteria used to distinguish DLE from other cutaneous lupus erythematosus subtypes. We examined which clinical, histo...

Lupus erythematosus (LE) is a chronic disease that includes a broad spectrum of symptoms. Lupus is Latin for wolf; perhaps the skin lesions were thought to resemble wolf bites. LE is included among the connective tissue diseases and is divided into systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and cutaneous lupus erythematosus (CLE). These can occur together or separately. The classification of CLE was di...