Dexamethasone-cyclophosphamide pulse therapy in progressive Systemic sclerosis
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Systemic sclerosis and dexamethasone cyclophosphamide pulse therapy.
Sir, There have been quite a few instances where the physician or may be even a dermatologist (mis) advices a patient having systemic sclerosis that there is no satisfactory treatment for this disease, as has also been done in the paper Therapeutic trials for systemic sclerosis: An update by Sardana and Garg.[1] Such patients often feel frustrated and disappointed, till another dermatologist ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Indian Journal of Dermatology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0019-5154
DOI: 10.4103/0019-5154.70697