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Diffuse Systemic Sclerosis Affecting the Chest and Shoulders

Diffuse Systemic Sclerosis Affecting the Chest and Shoulders

In this image, shiny, taut skin throughout the chest also extends over the shoulders, leading to a loss of range of movement of the shoulders.

By permission of the publisher. From Marder W, Lath V, Crofford L, Lowe L, McCune WJ: Atlas of Rheumatology. Edited by G Hunder. Philadelphia, Current Medicine, 2005.

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