MeSH definition : Diseases that exhibit signs and symptoms suggestive of a connective tissue disease
that do not fulfill clinical or diagnostic criteria for any one defined disease but
overlap with criteria of multiple such diseases. Commonly overlapping diseases include
systemic autoimmune connective tissue diseases such as RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYSTEMIC
LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; and SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS.;
Diseases that exhibit signs and symptoms suggestive of a connective tissue disease
that do not fulfill clinical or diagnostic criteria for any one defined disease but
overlap with criteria of multiple such diseases. Commonly overlapping diseases include
systemic autoimmune connective tissue diseases such as RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYSTEMIC
LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; and SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS.