Volume : 8, Issue : 3, March - 2019

An Unusal case of Mixed connective tissue disorder investigated by different imaging and pathological techniques.

Dr. Anil Joshi, Dr. Manisha Patil, Dr. Shikha Baid

Abstract :

The etiology of connective tissue diseases remains unknown, the classification of individual cases will continue to depend on identifying certain patterns of clinical and laboratory features. As many as 25% of connective tissue disease patients present with an overlap syndrome with features of systemic lupus erythematosus, systemic sclerosis, polymyositis, or dermatomyositis, with rheumatoid arthritis and Sjögren‘s syndrome evolving concurrently or consecutively during the course of the disease. We report here a case of mixed connective tissue disorder investigated by multiple imaging modalities ( X-Ray, C.T., M.R.I., P.E.T. Scan ), different bio-chemical & pathological tests and there after confirmed by histopathology in a 52 years old female.