Glenda's middle-aged ankles still hurt badly. I have been treating morphea enveloping her ankles for several years. With therapies including methotrexate, mycophenolate mofetil, clobetasol, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients treated with sequential vs. single grafting saw higher improvement in skin damage. On the other hand, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Standard of care treatments for morphea yielded reasonable success over long-term follow-up, according to a ...

Background. A previously healthy 50-year-old man presented with thickening and hardening of the skin on his trunk, neck and upper extremities that had started after the appearance of a 5 cm web-like ...

The prognosis of morphea is generally good, especially in cases with superficial lesions. 13 Morphea that extends deeper into the bone may result in functional disability and joint contractures. 13 ...

Localized scleroderma, as the term denotes, is localized to the skin on the hands and face. It is characterized by slow progression and rarely transforms to the systemic type. Localized scleroderma is ...

The word "scleroderma" comes from the Greek "sclero," meaning hard, and the Latin "derma," meaning skin. The localized form of scleroderma - more correctly called morphea - is primarily a skin disease ...

When I was in my early years of elementary school, roughly 23 years ago, I was diagnosed with a skin and muscle disease called Linear Morphea Scleroderma. The disease was mainly affecting my lower ...

An analysis of more than 100 patients has confirmed for the first time that darker-skinned patients benefit as those with lighter skin when given light therapy for morphea and related diseases, ...

DALLAS – July 8, 2008 – An analysis of more than 100 patients has confirmed for the first time that darker-skinned patients benefit as those with lighter skin when given light therapy for morphea and ...