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| Year : 2013 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 159 |
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Disabling pansclerotic morphea of childhood with extracutaneous manifestations
Mahendra M Kura, Saurabh R Jindal
Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprosy, Grant Medical College, Mumbai, India
Correspondence Address:
Mahendra M Kura
Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprosy, Grant Medical College and Sir JJ Hospital, Byculla, Mumbai - 400 008
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0019-5154.108079
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Disabling pansclerotic morphea (DPM) of childhood is a rare generalized type of localized scleroderma (LS) that is known to follow an aggressive course with pansclerotic lesions leading to severe joint contractures and consequent immobility. Mortality is due to complications of the disease such as bronchopneumonia, sepsis, or gangrene. There is no specific laboratory finding. Treatment protocols are still evolving for this severe recalcitrant disorder. Extracutaneous manifestations are rarely reported in DPM. We present the case of a 7-year-old girl with DPM with severe extracutaneous manifestations in the form of gastrointestinal and vascular disease, whose disease progressed rapidly. In spite of treatment with methotrexate, corticosteroids, and PUVA therapy, she ultimately succumbed to her illness due to sepsis. |
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