Review Article
Year: 2023 | Month: February | Volume: 10 | Issue: 2 | Pages: 31-35
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijrr.20230206
Classification Criteria of Connective Tissue Disorders in Dermatology
Dr Suhail Raheem Rather
Medical Officer, Department of Health and Medical Education, Jammu and Kashmir, India
ABSTRACT
Connective tissue diseases are a group of multisystem disorders that have an underlying autoimmune pathogenesis. The cutaneous signs are often presenting clinical features and represent early stages of disease. Classification criteria traditionally have high specificity which generally comes at the expense of somewhat lower sensitivity, thus missing high proportion of patients with disease. Classification criteria should only be employed if there is reason to believe a patient could have a disease. With revisions both sensitivity and specificity of classification criteria have increased over time.
Keywords: Classification criteria, connective tissue disease, cutaneous lupus erythematosus, dermatomyositis, scleroderma
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