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Why is it important?

This is an analysis of the various skin features of systemic lupus erythematosus in a cohort of mainly black South Africans.

Perspectives

It is the first study that focuses specifically on skin features of lupus in South Africans and the relationship to internal organ involvement. The study also highlights the importance of diffuse melanonychia is a fairly distinctive feature of lupus in people of African extraction

Mohammed Tikly
University of the Witwatersrand

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This page is a summary of: Spectrum of cutaneous lupus erythematosus in South Africans with systemic lupus erythematosus, Lupus, June 2019, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0961203319856091.
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