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Dermatomytosis
An inflammatory disease that involves skin and muscle. It could be a chronic condition, or sub acute. It comes with a characteristic skin rash and proximal muscle weakness. The skin lesions are usually purplish, involving the nose, cheeks, forehead, upper trunk, and arms. The disease is associated...
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Autoimmunity
Autoimmunity is the failure of an organism to recognize its own constituent parts as self, which allows an immune response against its own cells and tissues. Any disease that results from such an aberrant immune response is termed an autoimmune...
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- Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis ,
- Addison's disease ,
- Ankylosing spondylitis ,
- Antiphospholipid syndrome
Paraneoplastic phenomenon
A paraneoplastic syndrome is a disease or symptom that is the consequence of the presence of cancer in the body, but is not due to the local presence of cancer cells. These phenomena are mediated by humoral factors (by hormones or cytokines)...
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