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Multisystem autoimmune dysfunction with early onset of bullous emphysema
T M Roy1, C L Fields, K R Habenstein
1Division of Respiratory and Environmental Medicine, University of Louisville School of Medicine, KY 40292.
Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
We report a patient with alopecia universalis, autoimmune dysfunction, and rapidly progressing bullous emphysema. These disorders have neither been reported together previously nor classified within a syndrome. To explain early-onset bullous emphysema associated with autoimmune disturbance requires further study; we encourage reporting of similar patients.