African American woman shows her arms with a chronic skin discoloration.

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Lupis is an ongoing disease that can attack many parts of the body although it can also stay isolated to just one organ such as the skin. Basically Lupus is an autoimmune disease which means that the immune system begins to see its own cells and tissues as antigens and attacks them.

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Keywords: african, american, antigens, arms, attacks, autoimmune, body, chronic, clinical, dermatology, discoloration, disease, immune, lupis, lupus, patient, skin, system, tissues, woman