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Cutaneous chronic graft-versus-host disease does not have the abnormal endothelial phenotype or vascular rarefaction characteristic of systemic sclerosis.
PloS one - 9 Jul 2009
Fleming Jo Nadine, Shulman Howard M, Nash Richard A, Johnson Pamela Y, Wight Thomas N, Gown Allen, Schwartz Stephen M
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BACKGROUND: The clinical and histologic appearance of fibrosis in cutaneous lesions in chronic graft-versus -host disease (c-GVHD) resembles the appearance of fibrosis in scleroderma (SSc). Recent studies identified distinctive structural changes in the superficial dermal microvasculature and mat...
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