Shaimaa Rafat Ahmad <br/><br/>
Frequency of disease subsets and patterns of organ involvement among Egyptian scleroderma patients /  
 نسبة حدوث أنماط المرض وتأثير الأعضاء المختلفة بين مرضى تصلب الجلد المصريين 
Shaimaa Ra'fat Ahmad ; Supervised Geilan Abdelmoneim Mahmoud , Hanan Elsayed Ali Darweesh , Mervat Ismael Abdelazeem 
 - Cairo :   Shaimaa Ra'fat Ahmad ,   2012 
 - 180P. :   charts , facsimiles ;   25cm 
<br/><br/>Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 
<br/><br/> Systemic Sclerosis (SSC) is an autoimmune connective tissue disease of unknown etiology characterized by abnormalities of vasculature immune system and extracellular matrix that lead to fibrosis of the skin and internal organs (lungs gastrointestinal tract heart and kidneys)The disease has a female predilection and typically occurs in the third to fifth decades of life  
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis  Limited cutaneous systemic sclerosis  Systemic sclerosis