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A subset of patients with lupus erythematosus develops erythema multiforme-like skin lesions with speckled pattern of antinuclear antibodies, positive rheumatoid factor, anti-Ro (SS-A), and anti-La antibodies (SS-B), which known as Rowell’s syndrome. We report an adolescent boy presented with erythema multiforme-like skin lesions and pericardial effusion; he fulfilled criteria of both Rowell’s syndrome and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Such initial presentation of SLE is rarely reported in literature.
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Roy, M., Ghosh, J.B., Bala, A.K. et al. Rowell’s syndrome: presenting features of systemic lupus erythematosus. Rheumatol Int 33, 1075–1077 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00296-010-1623-y
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