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Localized scleroderma in adults and children. Clinical and laboratory investigations on 239 cases Volume 13, numéro 2, March - April 2003

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Institute of Dermatological Sciences of the University of Milan and IRCCS Ospedale Maggiore of Milan, Via Pace, 9, 20122 Milan, Italy
  • Page(s) : 171-6
  • Année de parution : 2003

Scleroderma is a chronic disease of unknown aetiology in which sclerosis of the skin develops with or without involvement of internal organs. Based on the presence or absence of systemic disease, scleroderma is divided into very distinct clinical categories: systemic scleroderma or systemic sclerosis (SSc), and localized scleroderma (LS) or morphea. The latter may be further subdivided into the following major types: (a) plaque morphea; [...]