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Mixed Connective Tissue Disease  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Entry terms

  • Connective Tissue Disease, Mixed
  • MCTD
  • Sharp Syndrome
  • Syndrome, Sharp

Note

  • a specific disease entity; do not confuse with CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASES

Scope note

  • A syndrome with overlapping clinical features of systemic lupus erythematosus, scleroderma, polymyositis, and Raynaud's phenomenon. The disease is differentially characterized by high serum titers of antibodies to ribonuclease-sensitive extractable (saline soluble) nuclear antigen and a "speckled" epidermal nuclear staining pattern on direct immunofluorescence.

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D008947

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