Systemic sclerosis and environment: an intriguing and still debated association.

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Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is characterised by a heterogeneous clinical expression probably reflecting the different genetic background of each patient. Progress has been made in the definition of the principal pathogenetic events of the disease that can be summarised in endothelial damage and dysfunction, inflammation with activation of immune system and fibrosis. The aetiology of the disease still remains to be...

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