TY - BOOK AU - Shaimaa Rafat Ahmad AU - Geilan Abdelmoneim Mahmoud , AU - Hanan Elsayed Ali Darweesh , AU - Mervat Ismael Abdelazeem , TI - Frequency of disease subsets and patterns of organ involvement among Egyptian scleroderma patients / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Shaimaa Ra'fat Ahmad , KW - Diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis KW - Limited cutaneous systemic sclerosis KW - Systemic sclerosis N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Rheumatology and Rehabilitation; Issued also as CD N2 - 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 UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -