A 35-year-old female presented her physician intermittent episodes of ischemia of her fingers, marked by pallor, paresthesias and pain, accompanied by tightening and thickening of the skin and poliarthralgia. Histological investigation of the skin biopsy from affected areas revealed mild epidermal atrophy, hyalinosis of collagen fibers within derma, scattered perivascular lymphocytes infiltrates. Underlying skeletal muscles expressed interstitial edema, loss of cross-section striation, nidal necroses followed with petrification. What is the most likely diagnosis?

GENERALISED LYMPHADENOPATHY

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A 35-year-old female presented her physician intermittent episodes of ischemia of her fingers, marked by pallor, paresthesias and pain, accompanied by tightening and thickening of the skin and poliarthralgia. Histological investigation of the skin biopsy from affected areas revealed mild epidermal atrophy, hyalinosis of collagen fibers within derma, scattered perivascular lymphocytes’ infiltrates. Underlying skeletal muscles expressed interstitial edema, loss of cross-section striation, nidal necroses followed with petrification. What is the most likely diagnosis?

A	Dermatomyositis
B	Systemic scleroderma
C	Lupus erythematosus
D	Nodular periarteritis

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GENERALISED LYMPHADENOPATHY