The immune pathogenesis of scleroderma: context is everything.

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Published in Curr Rheumatol Rep on January 01, 2013

Authors

Matthew B Greenblatt1, Antonios O Aliprantis

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. matt.greenblatt@gmail.com

Associated clinical trials:

The Effect of High Dose Methylprednisolone on Nailfold in Early Systemic Sclerosis ( SSc ) | NCT03059979

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