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Case Reports
. 1982 Dec;41(6):617-20.
doi: 10.1136/ard.41.6.617.

Multiple side effects of penicillamine therapy in one patient with rheumatoid arthritis

W K Essigman
Case Reports

Multiple side effects of penicillamine therapy in one patient with rheumatoid arthritis

W K Essigman. Ann Rheum Dis. 1982 Dec.

Abstract

Skin rashes, proteinuria, systemic lupus erythematosus, polymyositis and myasthenia gravis have all been recorded as complications of penicillamine therapy in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. A patient who had developed all 5 is now described. The skin lesion resembled elastosis perforans serpiginosa, which has been reported as a rare side effect in patients with Wilson's disease but not in patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated with penicillamine.

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