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Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases > Connective Tissue Diseases > Scleroderma, Systemic
Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases > Skin Diseases > Scleroderma, Systemic

Preferred term

Scleroderma, Systemic  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Sclerosis, Systemic
  • Systemic Scleroderma
  • Systemic Sclerosis

Note

  • note specific indentations and SCLERODERMA, LOCALIZED

Scope note

  • A chronic multi-system disorder of CONNECTIVE TISSUE. It is characterized by SCLEROSIS in the SKIN, the LUNGS, the HEART, the GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT, the KIDNEYS, and the MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM. Other important features include diseased small BLOOD VESSELS and AUTOANTIBODIES. The disorder is named for its most prominent feature (hard skin), and classified into subsets by the extent of skin thickening: LIMITED SCLERODERMA and DIFFUSE SCLERODERMA.

History note

  • 1971

In other languages

  • yleistynyt skleroderma

    Finnish

  • määrittämätön systeeminen skleroosi
  • scleroderma
  • scleroderma systemicum
  • sclerosis systemica
  • sclerosis systemica non specificata
  • skleroderma
  • systeeminen ihon kovettumatauti
  • systeeminen ihonkovettumatauti
  • systeeminen scleroosi
  • systeeminen skleroderma
  • systeeminen skleroosi
  • yleistynyt ihon kovettumatauti
  • yleistynyt ihonkovettumatauti
  • yleistynyt scleroderma
  • Sklerodermi, systemisk

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D012595

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