The term may sometimes also characterize connective tissue disease.

None had connective tissue disease then or in the follow up period.

House then believes that the nun might have mixed connective tissue disease.

Some doctors have called this illness undifferentiated connective tissue disease.

The exact cause of mixed connective tissue disease is unknown.

In the study, 7 out of 1,000 women without implants had developed connective tissue diseases.

Is not recommended for people who have serious connective tissue diseases such as scleroderma.

This was the case, for example, when in 1993 he reported finding no link between breast implants and connective tissue disease.

A connective tissue disease has been suspected in some cases.

One of my patients is a businessman with sarcoidosis, a connective tissue disease.