Treatment of early diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis patients in Japan by low-dose corticosteroids for skin involvement - PubMed

Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a multiorgan systemic disorder characterized by excessive collagen deposition. This disease is usually classified into two clinical subsets - diffuse cutaneous SSc (dSSc) and limited cutaneous SSc (lSSc). We have proposed low-dose oral corticosteroid treatment with indica…