Connective tissue diseases: systemic sclerosis: beyond limited and diffuse subsets?
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1038/nrrheum.2014.22 and PMC identifier 5438483.
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Abstract
Patients with systemic sclerosis present with varying clinical features, have different responses to therapy, and end up with different outcomes. Categorizing patients improves disease management. A new study now proposes that patients with systemic sclerosis and overlapping features of another connective tissue disease might form a distinct disease subset.
Medical subject headings
- Connective Tissue Diseases
- Scleroderma, Systemic