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Pathophysiology of systemic sclerosis: current understanding and new insights

Expert Review of Clinical Immunology, 2019
Introduction: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a complex autoimmune connective tissue disease characterized by chronic and progressive tissue and organ fibrosis with broad patient-to-patient variability.
M. Cutolo, S. Soldano, V. Smith
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Progressive systemic sclerosis in a family

Arthritis & Rheumatism, 1977
AbstractProgressive systemic sclerosis (PSS) developed in a 6‐year‐old boy and in his 38‐year‐old mother 9 years later. Both parent and child had Raynaud's phenomenon, integumental sclerosis, and pulmonary involvement, but they differed in other aspects of their disease.
Robert G. Gray, Roy D. Altman, Robert G. Gray, Roy D. Altman   +3 more
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Impotence in Progressive Systemic Sclerosis

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1982
Excerpt To the editor: Lally and Jimenez (1) suggest that impotence may be an early presenting symptom in progressive systemic sclerosis. Unfortunately their evidence for this conclusion is weak.
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Progressive Systemic Sclerosis and Impotence

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1981
Excerpt To the editor: We were most interested to read the recent article by Lally and Jimenez (1) describing six patients with progressive systemic sclerosis and impotence for whom no cause for th...
Lawrence E. Klein, Marc S. Posner
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The association of progressive systemic sclerosis (scleroderma) with coal miners' pneumoconiosis and other forms of silicosis.

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1967
Excerpt Progressive systemic sclerosis (PSS or scleroderma) occurs in men engaged in many kinds of work, and until recently there has been little reason to suspect that this disease might be prefer...
G. Rodnan, T. Benedek, T. Medsger, R. J. Cammarata   +3 more
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Some Progress with Systemic Sclerosis

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1979
Excerpt The treatment of systemic sclerosis has been ineffectual despite past enthusiasm for some drugs, notably corticosteroids, dimethyl sulfoxide, epsilon aminocaproic acid, potassium para-amino...
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Lungs in progressive systemic sclerosis

British Journal of Diseases of the Chest, 1970
Summary Impairment of pulmonary function in scleroderma is commoner than would be expected on clinical or radiological grounds alone. There is a poor correlation between the severity of functional derangement and the extent of pulmonary lesion detectable by clinical or radiological means.
J.S. Guleria, J.N. Pande, S.K. Malik, L.K. Bhutani   +3 more
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The nature of joint involvement in progressive systemic sclerosis (diffuse scleroderma).

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1962
Excerpt Involvement of the joints in progressive systemic sclerosis was first noted in 1847 by Forget who described a 33-year-old woman whose initial symptoms were pain and swelling of many joints ...
G. Rodnan
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The immunopathology of progressive systemic sclerosis (PSS)

Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism, 1982
Progressive systemic (sclerosis) is one of the most enigmatic of the rheumatic diseases. It is a connective tissue disorder of unknown etiology characterized by fibrosis in skin and internal organs. Although similar lesions are found with increased prevalence in workers exposed to coal, gold, silica, and polyvinyl chloride, most patients have had no ...
D.A.rrell C. Haynes, M. Eric Gershwin
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Bone resorption of the mandible in progressive systemic sclerosis.

Arthritis & Rheumatism, 1975
Five of 16 patients with progressive systemic sclerosis were found to have bone resorption at the angle of the mandible. This finding appears to be closely related to the tightness of the skin of the face, atrophy of the masseter and pterygoid muscles ...
M. Seifert, J. Steigerwald, M. Cliff
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