| ISN Photo Repository | ||
| Systemic Sclerosis, which is most commonly called scleroderma (SD), affects everyone differently. Just because something is listed here does not mean an individual patient will ever experience it. Also see About Scleroderma | ||
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| Photos of Sclerodactyly in Systemic Scleroderma Patient | ||
| Photos of Sclerodactyly in Systemic Scleroderma Patient | ||
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| Click photos to enlarge. Property of ISN Photo Repository. Contributed by Sherrill Knaggs |
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| The most classic symptom of systemic sclerosis (scleroderma) is sclerodactyly. Initial symptoms include swollen hands, which sometimes progress to this tapering and claw-like deformity. Not everyone with scleroderma develops this degree of skin hardening. However, it is this symptom that has earned scleroderma the nickname of 'the disease that turns people to stone'. | ||
| Related Links | ||
| ISN Photo Repository: Main Page. ISN. | ||
| ISN Photo Repository: Sclerodactyly: Sherrill Knaggs, Palms Up-1. ISN. | ||
| ISN Photo Repository: Sclerodactyly: Sherrill Knaggs, Side View-2. ISN. | ||
| Skin Involvement. ISN. | ||
| Scleroderma and Symptom Photos Wanted for ISN Photo Repository | ||
| We want photos of scleroderma symptoms to post on this web site or use in our printed materials to illustrate symptoms such as Morphea, Linear, Sclerodactyly (hardened fingers), Raynaud's, Calcinosis, Telangiectasia (etc). If you have any form of scleroderma or related illnesses and photos of your symptoms that you'd be willing to donate to the ISN Photo Repository, please email JPG files to webmaster@sclero.org. International Scleroderma Network. |
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