Lupus & antiphospholipid syndrome
Oral lesions of systemic lupus erythematosus: A collaborative Latin American study
Authors' conclusion
Oral lesions of SLE exhibit a variety of clinical and histopathological features.
Study context
- Population
- Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and oral lesions from Venezuela, Argentina, Chile, Brazil and Mexico50 biopsied
- Participants
- 70 patients
- Outcome
- Clinicopathological profile of SLE-related oral lesions
Methodological detailsrecord-based descriptive study, collaborative, multicentre (11 oral and maxillofacial pathology and medicine services)
- Record-based descriptive study
- Collaborative
- Multicentre (11 oral and maxillofacial pathology and medicine services)
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
- Female
- 75.7%
- Female/male ratio
- 3.1:1
- White
- 62.1%
- Mean age, years (range 11-77)
- 38.4
- Most common site: hard/soft palate
- 32.0%
- Ulcers
- 26.6%
- Erosions
- 26.6%
- White lesions
- 23.4%
- Isolated oral lesions
- 65.2%
- Cutaneous manifestations
- 80.3%
- Main clinical diagnostic hypothesis immune-mediated disease
- 71.4%
- Oral biopsies with histopathological analysis, cases
- 50
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Original publication
Oral lesions of systemic lupus erythematosus: A collaborative Latin American study. Lupus. Published 30 April 2024. doi:10.
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