Steroid Pulse Therapy for Progressive Systemic Sclerosis
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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: Internal Medicine
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0918-2918,1349-7235
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.35.525