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A mutilating arthropathy, "rhupus hands" associated with multiple synovial cysts in a patient with systemic lupus

Katsuhiro Hitomi1, Osamu Yamasaki, Kenji Asagoe

  • 1Department of Dermatology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan.

The Journal of Dermatology
|May 17, 2006
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"Rhupus hands" is a phrase coined to describe one of the deforming arthropathies associated with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), because the clinical features are indistinguishable from those of rheumatoid arthritis. Herein, we report a case of rhupus hands with multiple synovial cysts arising in a 60-year-old woman with SLE.

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