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Rheumatology • Systemic lupus erythematosus
What is your approach to assessing whether oral/nasal ulcerations are features of systemic lupus erythematosus versus from another etiology?
Classically, lupus mouth ulcers are large non-painful blisters at the roof of the mouth. What do you do with small scattered blisters, painful or not at the inner buccal muscosa or gum line?
Answer from: at Community Practice
Mucosal ulcerations due to lupus erythematosus (LE) are more complicated than many of us think. So, this question and answer are not as straightforward as many think.
First, the subtitle to this question is misleading. I would not use the word "blister," a lay term that I usually reserve for vesicl...
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