[Anticentromere antibodies and lung disease without skin involvement].
Anticentromere antibodies are closely related to systemic sclerosis and basically to limited cutaneous form. Two patients with different forms of lung disease, positive anticentromere antibodies and absence of the characteristic skin involvement of the systemic sclerosis are presented.
Fernández-Fernández
F J
FJ
Departamento de Medicina Interna, Hospital Arquitecto Marcide, Ferrol.
Sesma
P
P
Facio
A
A
Guerra
J L
JL
González-Moraleja
J
J
D000368:Aged; D001323:Autoantibodies / Q000097:blood*; D002503:Centromere / Q000276:immunology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011928:Raynaud Disease / Q000175:diagnosis; D012075:Remission, Spontaneous; D012595:Scleroderma, Systemic / Q000175:diagnosis; D012871:Skin Diseases
D001323:Autoantibodies