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 ...

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