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Rheumatology 2001; 40: 594-595
© 2001 British Society for Rheumatology
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Systemic sclerosis with pencil-in-cup deformity
Department of Medicine, K. G. Medical College, Lucknow 226003, India
SIR, We report a 16-yr-old female suffering from systemic sclerosis (SSc) who presented with deforming symmetrical polyarthritis which she had had for the past 1 yr, associated with a history of Raynaud's phenomenon and thickening of the skin, initially involving the hand and then becoming generalized to involve the feet, face and trunk. The patient had scleroderma facies, thickened skin over the face, extremities and trunk, healed fingertip infarcts, resorption of the pulp of the terminal pad of the fingers,
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