Most people with lupus have it affect the skin. The types of rashes can be divided into two large groups. First, when lupus affects the skin with problems only seen in lupus, it’s called cutaneous ...

Lupus is a common autoimmune disease that often has cutaneous features. Patients range from healthy people with purely cutaneous disease to those with severe multisystem disease in which the skin is ...

SAN ANTONIO — Distinguishing between the various forms of cutaneous lupus can be challenging, even for experienced clinicians. If a patient presents with a malar rash — also known as a butterfly rash ...

Lupus erythematosus panniculitis (LEP) is one of the less common types of lupus, which causes painful lesions under the skin. Lupus is a chronic autoimmune disease affecting about 1.5 million people ...

In a new study, Black people with discoid lupus erythematosus (DLE), a lupus skin disease characterized by discoid lesions (disc-shaped skin damage) on the body, exhibited increased prevalence of ...

When people talk about “lupus,” they usually mean systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), the most common type. But there are several other types and subtypes, some of which can overlap. Lupus is a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Victoria P. Werth, MD, professor of dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital, and chief of ...