Open AccessMucocutaneous and demographic features of systemic sclerosis: A profile of 46 patients from Eastern India
Author(s) -
Sudip Kumar Ghosh,
Debabrata Bandyopadhyay,
Indranil Saha,
Jayanta Kumar Barua
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
indian journal of dermatology/indian journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.395
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1998-3611
pISSN - 0019-5154
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5154.96193
Subject(s) - medicine , mucocutaneous zone , sclerodactyly , dermatology , etiology , scleroderma (fungus) , gangrene , surgery , calcinosis , disease , pathology , calcification , inoculation
Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a multisystem connective tissue disorder of uncertain etiology. The clinical picture is frequently dominated by prominent cutaneous manifestations that have diagnostic and prognostic significance. The objective of the present study was to find out the demographic profile and the relative frequencies and characteristics of different mucocutaneous features of SSc in a group of patients from eastern India. In addition, we sought to compare the frequency and pattern of the findings in the limited versus the diffuse variety of the disease.