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scleroderma
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scleroderma

In medicine, condition characterized by thickening of the skin. This results in the skin becoming hard, the joints stiffening, and a gradual wasting of the muscles. It is thought to be caused by malfunctioning of the immune system.
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4) Finally, many systemic diseases can lead to auricular ossification, including congenital plaque-like osteomatosis, Albright hereditary osteodystrophy, fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, Addison disease, osseous heteroplasia, and collagen vascular diseases, especially CREST syndrome and childhood dermatomyositis.
Auricular ossification resulting in external auditory canal stenosis by Carfrae, Matthew J.; Foyt, David / Ear, Nose and Throat Journal
Comparison of CREST syndrome variant with diffuse scleroderma.
Radiological case of the month: Stephanie Eschenbach, MD and Thomas ... by Eschenbach, Stephanie; Pope, Thomas L. / Applied Radiology
We report the rare case of a male patient with CREST syndrome accompanied by PBC, manifested by acute cholecystitis and mild jaundice.
Primary biliary cirrhosis accompanied by CREST syndrome by Karatzas, Gabriel / Southern Medical Journal
 
 
 
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