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TRINDADE NETO, Pedro Bezerra da; SALES, Alexandre de Oliveira; SILVA, Aldavânea Cabral de Oliveira e  e  NUNES, Juliana Cristina Soares. Scleromyxedema: a case treated with oral prednisone. An. Bras. Dermatol. [online]. 2006, vol.81, n.1, pp.55-58. ISSN 1806-4841.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0365-05962006000100007.

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.

Palavras-chave : Adrenal cortex hormones; Hyaluronic acid; Hypergammaglobulinemia; Mucinoses.

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