ACR Meeting Abstracts
Abstract Number: 794 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2015
Benjamin Chong1, Lin-chiang Tseng1, Gregory Hosler2, Noelle Teske1, Song Zhang3, David R. Karp4, Nancy J. Olsen5 and Chandra Mohan6, 1Dermatology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 2Propath, Dallas, TX, 3Clinical Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 4UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 5Divsion of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Penn State MS Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, 6Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX
Background/Purpose: Discoid lupus erythematosus (DLE) is the most common form of chronic cutaneous lupus. Lesional skin of DLE patients contains macrophages that may transition from…