Autoimmune hepatitis and systemic sclerosis: a new overlap syndrome?
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Autoimmune hepatitis and systemic sclerosis: a new overlap syndrome?
OBJECTIVE We report the cases of two patients with the complete CREST variant (calcinosis, Raynaud's phenomenon, oesophageal dysmotility, sclerodactyly, telangiectasia) of systemic sclerosis (SSc) who developed autoimmune hepatitis. RESULTS Our findings suggest that autoimmune hepatitis can be considered to be one of the liver manifestations associated with SSc. Our data also indicate that, b...
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عنوان ژورنال: Rheumatology
سال: 2001
ISSN: 1460-2172
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/40.1.102