Canadian Medical Guide > Diseases > Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases > Connective Tissue Diseases > Mixed Connective Tissue Disease Terms and Definitions
Mixed Connective Tissue Disease
Medical Definition: | 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. |
Guide Notes: | disease entity: read definition & do not confuse with CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASES; DF: MCTD |
Previously Indexed: | Collagen Diseases (1972-1978),Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic (1972-1978),Scleroderma, Systemic (1972-1978) |
Mixed Connective Tissue Disease Medical Definitions and Terms
|
Wildlife On Video »
Canada's Great Outdoors
Tour Canadian Rockies »
Book Banff »
Book Jasper »
Maligne Lake Boat Cruise »
Gondola Banff »
Hike Jasper »
Jasper Columbia Icefield »