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ANA Staining Pattern
Aka: ANA Staining Pattern, ANA Rim Pattern, ANA Homogenous Pattern, ANA Speckled Pattern, ANA Nucleolar Pattern, ANA Diffuse Pattern, ANA Centromere Pattern
- Rim Pattern
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (Most Specific)
- Homogenous Pattern
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (Very specific)
- Further evaluation
- Anti-dsDNA
- Anti-ssDNA
- Anti-Smith
- Speckled Pattern
- Most common, least specific
- Disorders
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
- Mixed Connective Tissue Disease
- Scleroderma
- Sjogren's Syndrome
- Further evaluation
- Smith Antibody (Anti-Smith)
- Ribonucleoprotein Antibody (Anti-RNP)
- Scl-70 kD kinetochore (Anti-Topoisomerase I)
- Anti-La (Anti-SSB)
- Nucleolar Pattern
- Disorders
- Scleroderma
- CREST syndrome
- Further evaluation
- Scl-70 kD kinetochore (Anti-Topoisomerase I)
- PM-1
- Diffuse Pattern
- Non-specific pattern
- Centromere Pattern
- Seen in PSS with CREST syndrome
- References
- Gladman in Klippel (1997) Rheumatic Diseases p. 255-6
- Peng in Ruddy (2001) Kelley's Rheumatology, p. 161-72
- Callegari (1995) Postgrad Med, 97(4):65-74
- Lane (2002) Am Fam Physician 65(6):1073-80