Connective tissue diseases
Connective tissue diseases are caused by problems with collagen (a group of support structures) and can have a vascular component. They are thus also called collagen vascular diseases.
Many connective tissue diseases share common signs and symptoms and can be hard to tell apart.
- Antisynthetase syndrome
- Dermatomyositis
- Direct immunofluorescence
- Discoid lupus erythematosus
- Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
- Eosinophilic fasciitis
- Erythema multiforme
- Erythema nodosum
- Cutaneous lupus erythematosus
- Mixed connective tissue disease
- Morphoea
- Raynaud disease
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Scleroderma (localised)
- Scleredema
- Scleroderma
- Scleromyxoedema
- Sjögren syndrome
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Systemic sclerosis
- Vasculitis
