Discoid lupus erythematosus. The skin lesion of DLE is the characteristic trait of the disease. DLE lesions may be a sole manifestation of the lupus in which there is little risk of the disease ...

A dermatologist diagnosed Denan Lance with discoid lupus in 2008. Lance ... but she didn’t know it could involve the skin. Early 2014 brought complications. What started as a rash on Lance’s back and ...

The lesions now referred to as discoid lupus were described in 1833 by Cazenave under ... Antimalarials, used in the past principally for lupus skin and joint involvement, are now recognized to ...

for example discoid lupus erythematosus (DLE). Caproni and colleagues, therefore, studied the expression of CD40 and CD40L in skin lesions of patients with SCLE. The authors conclude that the CD40 ...

Managing CV includes general measures to keep the patient as comfortable as possible until lesions resolve spontaneously. These include resting, protecting fragile skin from injury, and using ...

Discoid lupus, the more common type, only affects the skin, causing round lesions typically sun-exposed parts of the head and ...