Interesting cases in autoimmune connective tissue diseases: Clinical pearls for diagnosis and management

Abstract

Rheumatological diseases are multisystem in nature and skin is often involved, and mirrors the internal involvement which affords us insight into the disease, both from a diagnostic point of view and also from a pathophysiological point of view. A few clinical cases which were initially perplexing, but subsequently diagnosed as mixed connective tissue disease, dermatomyositis, and polyarteritis nodosa, are being discussed here to highlight this point.

Keywords

• clinical diagnosis
• dermatomyositis
• mixed connective tissue disease
• polyarteritis nodosa
• rheumatological disease