Preliminary Evaluation of in vivo Reflectance Confocal Microscopy Features of Neonatal Lupus Erythematosus.
Dermatology
; 240(2): 312-316, 2024.
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ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION:
Neonatal lupus erythematosus (NLE) is a rare autoimmune disease, which needs to be distinguished from eczema, congenital syphilis, and tinea corporis in newborns. Reflectance confocal microscopy (RCM) could be a helpful noninvasive diagnostic tool, which has been used to evaluate several inflammatory skin conditions. The aim of this study was to describe the RCM characteristics of NLE.METHODS:
Eleven NLE patients were included in the study, and all patients were evaluated clinically with RCM. We also evaluated RCM images from 11 eczema patients as controls.RESULTS:
Some major key diagnostic features of NLE can be observed by RCM an enlarged honeycomb pattern (9/11, 81.8%), round-to-oval cyst-like structures were present (6/11, 54.5%), the normal ring-like structures were totally or partially obliterated (11/11, 100%) at the level of the dermo-epidermal junction, medium refractivity collagen fibers that were disorganized (10/11, 90.9%), numerous high refractivity round cells (11/11, 100%) in the dermis.CONCLUSION:
RCM allows the visualization of major key diagnostic features of NLE and serves as a complementary diagnostic tool for NLE.Key words
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Skin Neoplasms
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Eczema
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Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic
Limits:
Humans
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Newborn
Language:
En
Journal:
Dermatology
Journal subject:
DERMATOLOGIA
Year:
2024
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
China