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Rheumatology 2003; 42: 1007-1009
© 2003 British Society for Rheumatology

Letters to the Editor

Systemic sclerosis with bilateral hilar adenopathy

S. E. Mountantonakis, L. I. Sakkas, D. Papadopoulos and N. Stathakis

Internal Medicine, Thessaly University School of Medicine, Larisa, Greece

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SIR, Lymphadenopathy is not a well described feature of systemic sclerosis (SSc). In this report we describe a patient with SSc who had bilateral hilar adenopathy with eggshell calcification and supraclavicular adenopathy.

A 38-yr-old man presented with diffuse muscle and joint pain, Raynaud's phenomenon in his fingers and toes, oedema in his hands, and fatigue. These symptoms started approximately 1 yr before admission. Past medical history revealed a partially corrected cleft palate. The patient had worked in quartz stonecutting for approximately 1 yr, 5 . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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