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De novo systemic sclerosis after radiotherapy: a report of 3 cases
C Darras-Joly1, B Wechsler, O Blétry
1Department of Internal Medicine, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France.
The Journal of Rheumatology
|October 21, 1999
Abstract:
We describe 3 patients in whom the onset of systemic scleroderma occurred shortly after ionizing irradiation for nasopharyngeal or breast carcinoma. This relationship has been described rarely as has the exacerbation of a preexisting scleroderma after irradiation. This gives indications for direction of studies.