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Localized scleroderma

Known as: Addison's keloid, scleroderma morphea, morphea scleroderma 
A chronic disorder, possibly autoimmune, marked by excessive production of collagen which results in hardening and thickening of body tissues… 
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CATARACT-ALOPECIA-SCLERODACTYLY SYNDROMEGeneralized morpheaJuvenile-onset sclerodermaKeratoderma with scleroatrophy of the extremities
Circumscribed MorpheaCollagen DiseasesIn BloodJuvenile Localized Scleroderma

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1989
1989
Borrelia burgdorferi and localized scleroderma.
To the Editor.— Aberer et al, 1 in Austria, have suggested that morphea might be related to Borrelia burgdorferi infection. These… 
1986
1986
Hereditary deficiency of C2 in association with linear scleroderma 'en coup de sabre'.
A 32-year-old man suffering from linear frontoparietal scleroderma was found to have low (less than 10% normal) serum classical… 
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Localized scleroderma (morphoea): thickness of sclerotic plaques as measured by 15 MHz pulsed ultrasound.
The thickness of morphoea plaques was measured by A-mode ultrasound and compared to regional control measurements in the same… 
Review
1980
Review
1980
Circumscribed scleroderma with immunologic evidence of systemic lupus erythematosus.
An 8-year-old girl initially manifested clinical and histopathologic findings of circumscribed scleroderma. She had both linear… 
1980
1980
Localized scleroderma and idiopathic thrombocytopenia.
Two patients with localized scleroderma who developed thrombocytopenic purpura are reported. In both patients the… 
1979
1979
Localized scleroderma with cutaneous calcinosis. A distinctive variant.
Two patients had a distinctive variant of localized scleroderma. Both have a history of sclerodermatous changes of the skin over… 
1979
1979
Linear melorheostotic scleroderma with hypertrichosis.
On the basis of clinical features and histological findings, cutaneous manifestations of linear melorheostotic scleroderma are… 
1974
1974
Ultrastructural changes in the infammatory zone of localized scleroderma.
Abstract is not availeble. 
1961
1961
Electromyographic findings in scleroderma.
Muscular involvement in scleroderma (SD) has long been extensively referred to in classical neurological as well as… 
1957
1957
Morphea-like epithelioma.
IN RECENT years there has been evident a growing tendency to shrink the domain of dermatology by removing from it diseases in…