Lidocaine for systemic sclerosis: a double-blind randomized clinical trial
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Lidocaine for systemic sclerosis: a double-blind randomized clinical trial
BACKGROUND Systemic sclerosis (scleroderma; SSc) is an orphan disease with the highest case-specific mortality of any connective-tissue disease. Excessive collagen deposit in affected tissues is a key for the disease's pathogenesis and comprises most of the clinical manifestations. Lidocaine seems to be an alternative treatment for scleroderma considering that: a) the patient's having excessive...
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عنوان ژورنال: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1750-1172
DOI: 10.1186/1750-1172-6-5