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Oxidative stress in the pathogenesis of systemic scleroderma: An overview [PDF]

, 2018
Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a rare disorder of the connective tissue characterized by fibrosis of the skin, skeletal muscles and visceral organs. Additional manifestations include activation of the immune system and vascular injury. SSc causes disability
Gambardella, Lucrezia, Giovannetti, Antonello, Malorni, Walter, Pietraforte, Donatella, Straface, Elisabetta, Vona, Rosa   +5 more
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Systemic sclerosis with keloidal nodules [PDF]

Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia, 2013
Nodular sclerosis is a rare form of presentation related to both systemic and localized forms of scleroderma. We describe the case of a patient with nodular sclerosis in order to alert the medical community to recognize this entity.
Bárbara Stadler, Aline Paula Biazus Somacal, Emilio Weingraber, Michelle Tokarski Fontana, Thelma Larocca Skare   +4 more
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Role of growth factors in the pathogenesis of tissue fibrosis in systemic sclerosis. [PDF]

, 2010
The most severe clinical and pathologic manifestations of systemic sclerosis (SSc) are the result of a fibrotic process characterized by the excessive and often progressive deposition of collagen and other connective tissue macromolecules in skin and ...
Castro, Susan V., Jimenez, Sergio A., Piera-Velazquez, Sonsoles   +2 more
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Elevated expression of type VII collagen in the skin of patients with systemic sclerosis. Regulation by transforming growth factor-beta. [PDF]

, 1994
A hallmark of systemic sclerosis (SSc) is the development of tissue fibrosis. Excessive production of several connective tissue components normally present in the dermis, including type I, III, V, and VI collagens as well as fibronectin and proteoglycans,
Christiano, Angela M., Iozzo, Renato V., Jimenez, Sergio A., Rudnicka, Lidia, Uitto, Jouni, Varga, John   +5 more
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Narrow-Band Reflectance Spectrophotometry for the Assessment of Erythematous and Hyperpigmented Skin Lesions in Localized Scleroderma: A Preliminary Study

Clinical, Cosmetic and Investigational Dermatology, 2021
Background Localized scleroderma (LoS) is an inflammatory fibrosing disease of the connective tissue, whose esthetic sequelae are atrophic skin lesions with hyperpigmentation.
M. Szczepanek, A. Frątczak, A. Lis-Święty   +2 more
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Localized scleroderma – current treatment options

Przegląd Dermatologiczny, 2017
Localized scleroderma (morphea) is a connective tissue disease that affects the skin, subcutaneous tissue and underlying tissues including the fasciae, muscles and bones. The treatment of localized scleroderma depends on the clinical form of the disease,
Katarzyna Wolska-Gawron, Małgorzata Michalska-Jakubus, Dorota Krasowska   +2 more
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Immunochip analysis identifies multiple susceptibility loci for systemic sclerosis [PDF]

, 2014
In this study, 1,833 systemic sclerosis (SSc) cases and 3,466 controls were genotyped with the Immunochip array. Classical alleles, amino acid residues, and SNPs across the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) region were imputed and tested.
, Airó, Paolo, Alarcón-Riquelme, Marta, AlKassab, Firas, Arnett, Frank C., Assassi, Shervin, Baron, Murray, Beretta, Lorenzo, Bossini-Castillo, Lara, Broen, Jasper, Brown, Matthew, Carmona, Francisco David, Carreira, Patricia, Castellví, Iván, Chen, Wei V., Denton, Christopher, Distler, Jörg H.W., Docherty, Peter, Fessler, Barri J., Fonseca, Carmen, Frech, Tracy M., Furst, Daniel E., González-Gay, Miguel Ángel, Gorlova, Olga, Gregersen, Peter K., Guerra, Sandra, Herrick, Ariane, Hesselstrand, Roger, Hinchcliff, Monique E., Hudson, Marie, Hummers, Laura K., Hunzelmann, Nicolas, Jones, Henry Niall, Kaminska, Elzbieta, Khalidi, Nader, Khanna, Dinesh, Koeleman, Bobby P., Kreuter, Alexander, Lafyatis, Robert A., Lee, Annette T., Lunardi, Claudio, López-Isac, Elena, Markland, Janet, Martin, Javier, Martin, José Ezequiel, Mayes, Maureen D., Molitor, Jerry A., Nordin, Annika, Ochoa, Eguzkine, Padyukov, Leonid, Phillips, Kristin, Pope, Janet E., Radstake, Timothy R.D.J., Reveille, John D., Riemekasten, Gabriela, Robinson, David, Schiopu, Elena, Schuerwegh, Annemie J., Segal, Barbara M., Shiels, Paul, Silver, Richard M., Simeón, Carmen Pilar, Simms, Robert W., Steen, Virginia D., Tan, Filemon K., Teruel, María, van Laar, Jacob M., Varga, John, Voskuyl, Alexandre E., Wigley, Fredrick M., Wijmenga, Cisca, Witte, Torsten, Worthington, Jane, Ying, Jun, Zhernakova, Alexandra, Zhou, Xiaodong   +75 more
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Localized scleroderma secondary to mixed connective tissue disease during abatacept therapy

Journal of Cutaneous Immunology and Allergy, 2022
A 47‐year‐old woman with mixed connective tissue disease was treated with abatacept. After 2 months, a 3‐cm depression with atrophied surface was observed on her back, which had histopathological consistent with the symptoms of localized scleroderma ...
Sayuko Nagaoka, Shujiro Hayashi, Ken Igawa   +2 more
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Unilateral Extremity Swelling, a Rare Manifestation of Scleredema Adultorum of Buschke in a Child: Case Report. [PDF]

Clin Case Rep
ABSTRACT Scleredema adultorum of Bushcke is a rare connective tissue disorder that is characterized by skin thickening that commonly starts from the neck and spreads to the face, shoulders, upper back, abdomen, and in some cases, thighs. The symptoms are generally seen after an infection associated with streptococcus.
Hajiani Ghotbabadi S, Derakhshan D, Rubab Amir R, Tabibi P.   +3 more
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Eosinophilic fasciitis (Shulman's disease): review and comparative evaluation of seven patients. [PDF]

, 2019
OBJECTIVES: Eosinophilic fasciitis (EF) was described in 1974 by Shulman as a rare fibrosing connective tissue disease of unknown etiology. An undetermined trigger is thought to lead to the degranulation of eosinophils that interact with fibroblasts and
Cimbron, M, Farinha, F, Mendonça, T, Urzal, J   +3 more
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