[2] Patients with diffuse cutaneous scleroderma with skin thickening on the proximal extremities or the trunk are in highest danger of developing SRC, at 20% to 25%, and so should be followed ...

Scleroderma is an autoimmune condition that primarily causes thickening of your skin. For some people, bladder or urinary problems may also develop. Some treatments for scleroderma may also cause ...

Considering findings of naturally acquired ... is constitutively overexpressed by fibroblasts present in skin fibrotic lesions, including scleroderma. The overexpression of connective tissue ...

Of note, SSc has traditionally sometimes also been called scleroderma, but strictly speaking, this term refers only to skin involvement ... This was based on findings from an online survey ...

Scleroderma is a rare disease in which a person's immune system begins to destroy normal, healthy tissues. (This is called an autoimmune disease.) As a result, connective tissue of the skin, lungs, ...

Episodes of Raynaud's phenomenon, a common feature of systemic sclerosis (SSc, also known as scleroderma), were ... and the ...