title: Eosinophilic fasciitis/generalized morphea overlap.
abstract: A 50-year-old woman presented with a three-month history of violaceous, non-tender, indurated plaques on the chest, abdomen, breasts, and proximal portions of the arms and legs. An incisional biopsy specimen showed changes consistent with a diagnosis of inflammatory morphea. Over the course of one year, the patient began to develop signs and symptoms suggestive of a diagnosis of eosinophilic fasciitis, which included the characteristic groove sign on the upper extremities. Although our patient did not exhibit peripheral or histopathologic evidence of eosinophilia, the diagnosis of eosinophilic fasciitis could still be made because the aforementioned phenomena are not required for diagnosis. Multitude treatment regimes have been reported in the literature as single case reports or small patient series. Our patient was maintained on methrotrexate, oral glucocorticoids, and etanercept with improvement of skin lesions and mobility.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, New York University, USA.
authors.forename: Noushin
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Heidary
authors.forename: Wang
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Cheung
authors.forename: Nadia
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Hideko
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kamino
authors.forename: Andrew G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Franks
mesh_terms: D005208:Fasciitis / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D012594:Scleroderma, Localized / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology