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scleroderma, circumscribed (medicine)


scleroderma, circumscribed


A chronic, localised hardening and thickening of the skin. Lesions may be categorised as morphea (guttate, profunda, pansclerotic) or linear (with or without melorheostosis or hemiatrophy). It is twice as common in women as in men. The condition is characterised by skin ischemia, lymphocytic infiltrates, swollen collagen bundles, and thickening of the dermis with reduction of subcutaneous fat.