Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
3390999 Seminarios de la Fundación Española de Reumatología 2012 7 Pages PDF
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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