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Cutaneous lesions as presenting symptoms of primary biliary cirrhosis: an undifferentiated connective tissue disease–like onset

verfasst von: Michele Covelli, Ivana Favia, Mariapia Marrone, Florenzo Iannone, Antonia Gentile, Gaetano Lastilla, Giovanni Lapadula

Erschienen in: Clinical Rheumatology | Ausgabe 6/2006

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Abstract

We describe two patients with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) who presented with specific symptoms mimicking an undifferentiated connective tissue disease (arthromyalgia, fatigue, cutaneous lesions either morbillous-like or urticarial, the latter with an eosinophil infiltrate of upper dermis). Subsequent detection firstly of eosinophilia in the blood and secondarily of antimitochondrial antibodies with results of liver biopsy allowed a diagnosis of asymptomatic PBC. In our cases, a peculiar sign of early stage of PBC was represented also by the eosinophilia in the liver.

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Titel: Cutaneous lesions as presenting symptoms of primary biliary cirrhosis: an undifferentiated connective tissue disease–like onset
verfasst von: Michele Covelli
Ivana Favia
Mariapia Marrone
Florenzo Iannone
Antonia Gentile
Gaetano Lastilla
Giovanni Lapadula
Publikationsdatum: 01.11.2006
Verlag: Springer-Verlag
Erschienen in: Clinical Rheumatology / Ausgabe 6/2006
Print ISSN: 0770-3198
Elektronische ISSN: 1434-9949
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10067-005-0084-2

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