She works as both a clinician and a dermatological researcher, specializing in skin cancer prevention and ...

It is possible to have systemic sclerosis without skin thickening (sine scleroderma), which is when there are internal organ manifestations without skin findings, but this is very rare. Skin ...

Researchers examined the addition of 3D total-body photography and sequential digital dermoscopy imaging to usual care on outcomes in patients at high risk for melanoma.

Women with any of three common types of autoimmune disease may face a higher rate of death linked to heart disease and stroke ...

Localized scleroderma affects only the skin and the area directly underneath, while the effects of systemic scleroderma can spread to tissue, blood vessels, and organs, including those of the ...

The scleroderma skin pinch test checks the thickness and elasticity of your skin. It can help doctors diagnose and monitor scleroderma, an autoimmune condition that causes inflammation and ...

The paired Student's t test did not show any statistically significant differences in the findings between the two ... study because thickening of hand skin is one of the most common symptoms of ...

In some subtypes of DM, specific skin symptoms emerge, which can aid in the differential diagnosis and classification of different subtypes of DM: Pathognomonic skin findings observed in ...

Scleroderma on the face can cause symptoms that may affect your appearance, including the texture, discoloration, and elasticity of your skin. Medications, facial exercises, and dermatological ...

Injections yielded significant improvements in visual analog scale pain and Quick-DASH score, as well as skin temperature ... s syndrome secondary to scleroderma, according to data published ...

Clinical involvement was assessed by an operator blinded to OCT findings using the mRSS ... all three measures showed comparable performance in detecting scleroderma also in clinically unaffected skin ...

Conclusions SSc skin involvement is often absent in early seronegative ... At last follow-up, SSc small-bowel involvement (60%) and SSc sine scleroderma (40%) were key findings in these five patients.