Years ago, only the worst cases of scleroderma were diagnosed, thus leading to the widespread belief that systemic scleroderma was always progressive and fatal.

　　以前，只有最嚴重的硬皮病患者得到診斷，這就導致了廣泛的認識，系統(tǒng)性硬皮病是不斷進展的并且是致命的。

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   Preliminary criteria for the classification of systemic sclerosis (scleroderma)
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3. Pulmonary hypertension in the crest syndrome variant of systemic sclerosis
   Systemic sclerosis: a prototypic multisystem fibrotic disorder
4. Prevalence and outcome in systemic sclerosis associated pulmonary arterial hypertension: application of a registry approach
   Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis in systemic sclerosis of childhood
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   Stimulatory Autoantibodies to the PDGF Receptor in Systemic Sclerosis