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Preferred term

Mixed Connective Tissue Disease  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • A syndrome with overlapping clinical features of systemic lupus erythematosus, scleroderma, polymyositis, and Raynaud's phenomenon. The disease is differentially characterized by high serum titers of antibodies to ribonuclease-sensitive extractable (saline soluble) nuclear antigen and a "speckled" epidermal nuclear staining pattern on direct immunofluorescence.

Synonym(s)

  • Connective Tissue Disease, Mixed
  • MCTD
  • Sharp Syndrome

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-J2NF8MHS-F

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