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Connective tissue disorders are a complex group of diseases with different etiology. Most of these affect multiple systems commonly associated with arthritis/ arthralgia, some may have prominent skin lesions. Lupus erythematosus, scleroderma and dermatomyositis have distinctive cutaneous manifestations; these are associated with a high incidence of circulating autoantibodies with widespread fibrinoid degeneration of collagen fibres. The cutaneous signs of some connective tissue diseases can be present for a long time before systemic signs become manifest.
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Zaidi, Z., Hussain, K., Sudhakaran, S. (2019). Connective Tissue Disorders. In: Treatment of Skin Diseases. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89581-9_8
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