{"id":559106,"date":"2026-08-11T22:14:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T20:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/?p=559106"},"modified":"2026-08-11T22:14:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T20:14:56","slug":"discoid-lupus-erythematosus-in-a-38-year-old-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/discoid-lupus-erythematosus-in-a-38-year-old-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Discoid Lupus Erythematosus in a 38-Year-Old Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Discoid lupus erythematosus (DLE) accounts for 50\u201380% of all cases of chronic cutaneous lupus, making it the most common subtype. The diagnosis is primarily clinical but is supported by histopathology and direct immunofluorescence in atypical or treatment-resistant cases. Clinical mimicry poses a challenge and requires consideration of a broad spectrum of differential diagnoses. Although DLE is traditionally considered a disease limited to the skin, recent findings point to potential systemic autoimmune activity, for which there were also indications in the present case.     <\/strong><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"pmpro\"><div class=\"pmpro_card pmpro_content_message\"><div class=\"pmpro_card_content\">Dieser Inhalt ist nur f\u00fcr Benutzer der Gruppe: Medizinische Fachperson zug\u00e4nglich <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/my-account\/packages\/\">Jetzt beitreten<\/a><\/div><div class=\"pmpro_card_actions pmpro_font-medium\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/log-in\/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fmedizinonline.com%2Fen%2Fdiscoid-lupus-erythematosus-in-a-38-year-old-woman%2F\">Log in here<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discoid lupus erythematosus (DLE) accounts for 50\u201380% of all cases of chronic cutaneous lupus, making it the most common subtype. The diagnosis is primarily clinical but is supported by histopathology&#8230;&hellip;... <\/p>\n<div class=\"pmpro\"><div class=\"pmpro_card pmpro_content_message\"><div class=\"pmpro_card_content\">Dieser Inhalt ist nur f\u00fcr Benutzer der Gruppe: Medizinische Fachperson zug\u00e4nglich <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/my-account\/packages\/\">Jetzt beitreten<\/a><\/div><div class=\"pmpro_card_actions pmpro_font-medium\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/log-in\/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fmedizinonline.com%2Fen%2Fdiscoid-lupus-erythematosus-in-a-38-year-old-woman%2F\">Log in here<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":559108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","cat_1_feature_home_top":false,"cat_2_editor_pick":false,"csco_eyebrow_text":"Case study  ","footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"category":[11548,11331,11520,11340,11508,11297,11442,11480],"tags":[22745,94878,94882,94880,21434,75946],"powerkit_post_featured":[],"class_list":["post-559106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rx-en","category-allergology-and-clinical-immunology","category-cases-en","category-dermatology-and-venereology","category-education","category-general-internal-medicine","category-pharmacology-and-toxicology","category-rheumatology","tag-case-study","tag-chronic-cutaneous-lupus","tag-discoid-lupus-erythematosus","tag-dle","tag-hydroxychloroquine","tag-methylprednisolone","pmpro-level-required","pmpro-level-1","pmpro-no-access"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-21 20:28:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"wpml_current_locale":"en_US","wpml_translations":{"fr_FR":{"locale":"fr_FR","id":559110,"slug":"lupus-erythemateux-discoide-chez-une-femme-de-38-ans","post_title":"Lupus \u00e9ryth\u00e9mateux disco\u00efde chez une femme de 38 ans","href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/fr\/lupus-erythemateux-discoide-chez-une-femme-de-38-ans\/"},"it_IT":{"locale":"it_IT","id":559116,"slug":"lupus-eritematoso-discoide-in-una-donna-di-38-anni","post_title":"Lupus eritematoso discoide in una donna di 38 anni","href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/it\/lupus-eritematoso-discoide-in-una-donna-di-38-anni\/"},"pt_PT":{"locale":"pt_PT","id":559121,"slug":"lupus-eritematoso-discoide-numa-mulher-de-38-anos","post_title":"L\u00fapus eritematoso discoide numa mulher de 38 anos","href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/pt-pt\/lupus-eritematoso-discoide-numa-mulher-de-38-anos\/"},"es_ES":{"locale":"es_ES","id":559125,"slug":"lupus-eritematoso-discoide-en-una-mujer-de-38-anos","post_title":"Lupus eritematoso discoide en una mujer de 38 a\u00f1os","href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/es\/lupus-eritematoso-discoide-en-una-mujer-de-38-anos\/"}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":559109,"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559106\/revisions\/559109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category?post=559106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559106"},{"taxonomy":"powerkit_post_featured","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/powerkit_post_featured?post=559106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}