Skin Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Infection in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: An Unusual Skin Infection Mimicking Lupus Vasculitis

Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 498-506

  Touma, Zahi ^b   Haddad, Amir ^b   Gladman, Dafna D ^b   Uleryk, Elizabeth M ^a   Urowitz, Murray B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Lupus; Nontuberculous mycobacteria; Skin infection

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AZATHIOPRINE; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFALEXIN; CEFOXITIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; ETHAMBUTOL; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; ISONIAZID; LINEZOLID; METHOTREXATE; MINOCYCLINE; MOXIFLOXACIN; PREDNISONE; RIFAMPICIN; TOBRAMYCIN;

ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CANADA; CASE REPORT; CELLULITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEBRIDEMENT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; FOOT ULCER; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; LOCAL EXCISION; LUPUS VASCULITIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONEI; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; MYCOBACTERIUM HAEMOPHILUM; MYCOBACTERIUM KANSASII; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINATUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SCROFULACEUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SZULGAI; PAPULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN ABSCESS; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN INFECTION; SKIN NODULE; SKIN ULCER; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULITIS; WOUND HEALING;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; LUPUS VASCULITIS, CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, NONTUBERCULOUS; NONTUBERCULOUS MYCOBACTERIA; SKIN DISEASES, INFECTIOUS;

EID: 84876982501     PISSN: 00490172     EISSN: 1532866X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semarthrit.2012.08.002     Document Type: Article

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