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Fatal connective tissue disease with antinuclear antibodies following PUVA therapy

Bruze M, Krook G, Ljunggren B.
DOI: 10.2340/0001555564157160

Abstract

Antinuclear antibodies with a nucleolar staining pattern appeared in a psoriasis patient during PUVA therapy. No antinuclear antibodies were found after the termination of PUVA but they reappeared one year later together with symptoms consistent with a connective tissue disease. The course was fatal and the clinical and the laboratory investigations suggested a scleroderma-like syndrome.

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