Mixed Connective Tissue Disease
"Mixed Connective Tissue Disease" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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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.
| Descriptor ID |
D008947
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C17.300.540
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Noninvasive investigation of the gastrointestinal tract in collagen-vascular disease. Am J Gastroenterol. 1984 Nov; 79(11):873-7.