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Imaging Features of Systemic Sclerosis-Associated Interstitial Lung Disease
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Mediastinal lymphadenopathy preceding skin and lung fibrosis in systemic sclerosis
1First Department of Internal Medicine, Matsushita Memorial Hospital, Osaka, Japan.
Respiration; International Review of Thoracic Diseases
|January 1, 1994
Abstract:
We report a case of systemic sclerosis (SSc) associated with mediastinal lymphadenopathy. A 77-year-old woman was admitted because of general fatigue. Mediastinal lymphadenopathy was diagnosed by chest computed tomography before the skin and lung involvements of SSc was discovered. The mediastinal lymphadenopathy declined with the development of lung fibrosis.
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