Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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3390999 | Seminarios de la Fundación Española de Reumatología | 2012 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
Diagnosis is clinical, although microscopic study of a biopsy sample can be useful in specific circumstances. Perniosis should be distinguished from other, very different processes that may nevertheless cause lesions with a similar appearance. Among these are chilblain lupus, which still lacks a precise definition and is difficult to distinguish from idiopathic perniosis. Treatment is disappointing and is essentially based on topical corticosteroids and oral calcium channel blockers such as nifedipine and felodipine
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Authors
Isabel Bielsa Marsol,