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| Systemic Sclerosis, which is most commonly called scleroderma (SD), affects everyone differently. Just because something is listed here does not mean an individual patient will ever experience it. Also see About Scleroderma | |
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| Sclerodactyly in Systemic Scleroderma: Side View 2 | |
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| Photo of Sclerodactyly in Systemic Sclerosis (scleroderma) patient. Enlarged side view. Property of International Scleroderma Network (ISN) Photo Repository Donated to ISN by Sherrill Knaggs |
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| The most classic symptom of systemic sclerosis (scleroderma) is sclerodactyly. Initial symptoms include swollen hands, which sometimes progress to this tapering and claw-like deformity. Not everyone with scleroderma develops this degree of skin hardening. However, it is this symptom that has earned scleroderma the nickname of 'the disease that turns people to stone'. | |
| Related Links | |
| ISN Photo Repository: Main Page ISN. | |
| ISN Photo Repository: Sclerodactyly: Sherrill Knaggs, Palms Up-1 ISN. | |
| ISN Photo Repository: Sclerodactyly: Sherrill Knaggs, Side View-2 ISN. | |
| Skin Involvement ISN. | |
| Scleroderma and Symptom Photos Wanted for ISN Photo Repository | |
| We want photos of scleroderma symptoms to post on this web site or use in our printed materials to illustrate symptoms such as Morphea, Linear, Sclerodactyly (hardened fingers), Raynaud's, Calcinosis, Telangiectasia (etc). If you have any form of scleroderma or related illnesses and photos of your symptoms that you'd be willing to donate to the ISN Photo Repository, please email JPG files to webmaster@sclero.org. International Scleroderma Network. |
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