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Sonographic evaluation of pediatric localized scleroderma: preliminary disease assessment measures.

Suzanne C Li, Melissa S Liebling, Farid Ramji, Sven Opitz, Arun Mohanta, Tatiana Kornyat, Shuzhen Zhang, Molly Dempsey-Robertson, Carsten Hamer, Stephanie Edgerton, Jose Jarrin, Mike Malone, and Andrea Doria

Pediatr Rheumatol Online J (2010) PMID 20423513

Our earlier work in the ultrasonograpy of localized scleroderma (LS) suggests that altered levels of echogenicity and vascularity can be associated with disease activity. Utrasound is clinically benign and readily available, but can be limited by operator dependence. We present our efforts to standardize image acquisition and interpretation of pediatric LS to better evaluate the correlation between specific sonographic findings and disease activity.

DOI: 10.1186/1546-0096-8-14
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