Chronic Lupus Erythematosus

Sjogren's Syndrome and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

“…It should be noted, however, that the skin lesions of sarcoid can easily be mistaken for those of chronic L.E. (Grund, 1950). and the radiological appearances of the chest in sarcoid and "lupus pneumonitis" are similar.…”

Lupus erythematosus profundus

“…Irgang [8], and T uffanelli [9], while its histological features caused a great deal of discussion. After Pautrier's [10] view on its similarity to DarierRoussy's sarcoid, and criticism on Arnold's paper by G rund [11] in features indistinguishable from erythema induratum and Weber-Christian panni culitis, final statement came from Fountain [12] who was able to find reasonably diagnostic features in 6 cases. He pointed out that the changes are usually 'sufficiently distinctive to make a diagnosis possible in what may…”