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Rheumatologic diseases have a diversity of cutaneous and systemic manifestations. This chapter presents with annular erythematous type of subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus, bullous systemic lupus erythematosus, lupus erythematosus tumidus, neonatal lupus erythematosus, antiphospholipid syndrome, nodular scleroderma, atrophoderma of Pasini and Pierini, acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans, linear atrophoderma of Moulin, rheumatoid neutrophilic dermatitis, and graft-versus-host disease.

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Su, XY. et al. (2018). Rheumatologic Diseases. In: Zhu, WY., Tan, C., Zhang, Rz. (eds) Atlas of Skin Disorders. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8037-1_10

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