Abstract
A 9-years-old female was in good health until age of 7 when she developed motor disturbance in the right lower extremity. She has had recurrent remissions and relapses of symptoms for 2 years and 7 months, and her clinical pictures were sug-gestive of MS or ARDEM. The patient was given prednisolone with a clinical improvement. There were few clinical symptoms of the SLE.
Laboratory findings were as follows: Modera-tely raised ESR, positive ANA, positive LE cell and LE test, slightly increased cell counts of CSF, raised serum cholesterol and raised serum IgM.
In this case, these symptoms, signs and labora-tory f indings agree with the lupoid sclerosis as adistinct variant or subgroup of SLE proposed byFulford et al.
It is possible that our case might present anintermediate position between SLE and MS andthat there might be certain immunological rela-tionship between lupoid sclerosis and SLE, MS, ARDEM and ADEM in regard to their etiology.
Similar cases were reviewed in the literaturesand such a relationship was discussed.
