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Epidemiology of systemic sclerosis.
Best practice & research. Clinical rheumatology - 1 Dec 2010
Nikpour Mandana, Stevens Wendy M, Herrick Ariane L, Proudman Susanna M
Abstract excerpt
Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a multisystem auto-immune disease. The two main subtypes of SSc (limited and diffuse) typically have differing courses and prognoses. New classification criteria have been proposed to identify SSc in the earliest stages, before skin involvement. Over the past three decades, there has been an apparent increase in the incidence of SSc to approximately 20 per million, possibly due to...
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