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Mixed connective tissue disease after exposure to polyvinyl chloride
M F Kahn1, P Bourgeois, A Aeschlimann
1Clinique de Rhumatologie, Faculté Xavier Bichat, Université Paris VII, France.
The Journal of Rheumatology
|April 1, 1989
Abstract:
We present 4 patients fulfilling criteria for mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) with anti-RNP antibodies, who had been previously exposed, in 4 different professions, to polyvinyl chloride. This presentation is clinically and serologically different from the classical polyvinyl chloride disease in which no such antibody can be found. Already observed in patients after cosmetic surgery, MCTD could also be a result of toxic exposure.