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Neurotropic ulceration systemic sclerosis
Author(s) -
SANT S.M.,
MURPHY G.M.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
clinical and experimental dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.587
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1365-2230
pISSN - 0307-6938
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2230.1994.tb01120.x
Subject(s) - medicine , scleroderma (fungus) , connective tissue disorder , peripheral nervous system , systemic scleroderma , connective tissue , connective tissue disease , peripheral , peripheral neuropathy , dermatology , systemic disease , nervous system , progressive systemic sclerosis , pathology , multiple sclerosis , central nervous system , immunology , immunopathology , autoimmune disease , disease , dermatomyositis , raynaud disease , diabetes mellitus , psychiatry , inoculation , endocrinology
Summary Scleroderma is primarily a cutaneous disorder but systemic involovement is common and neurological com‐plications are increasingly recognized but previously poorly documented. Few cases of peripheral nervous system involvement in scleroderma have been reported. The peripheral nervous system, however, is rich in connective tissue and sclerodermal involvement may not be as unusual as the literature suggests. A case in which there was a mixed sensorimotor peripheral neuropathy with neutrotropic ulceration in a patient with systemic sclerosis is reported.