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Melissa Carroll1, Nick Mellick2, Godfrey Wagner3
1Department of Dermatology, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Abstract:
Dermatomyositis-related panniculitis is a rare cutaneous manifestation of dermatomyositis. There are few reported cases in the medical literature. We present the case of a 60-year-old woman with a 2-year history of dermatomyositis and recent biopsy-confirmed panniculitis treated with prednisone, cyclophosphamide and i.v. immunoglobulin.
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