%0 Journal Article
%T Escleromixedema: um caso tratado com prednisona oral
%A Trindade Neto
%A Pedro Bezerra da
%A Sales
%A Alexandre de Oliveira
%A Silva
%A Aldavanea Cabral de Oliveira e
%A Nunes
%A Juliana Cristina Soares
%J Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia
%D 2006
%I Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia
%R 10.1590/S0365-05962006000100007
%X scleromyxedema is an idiopathic cutaneous mucinosis characterized by a papular eruption, skin induration and paraproteinemia. histologically, fibrolast proliferation can be observed in the upper dermis associated with a mucine deposition. treatment is difficult and at present there is no totally effective therapeutic modality to control the disease. the present report is on a 68-year-old patient with scleromyxedema without systemic manifestation, who responded to oral steroid therapy.
%K adrenal cortex hormones
%K hyaluronic acid
%K hypergammaglobulinemia
%K mucinoses.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0365-05962006000100007&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en