Morphea, or localized scleroderma, is an inflammatory disease that leads to sclerosis of the skin and underlying tissues due to excessive collagen deposition. Oral involvement is unusual and it may produce white linear fibrotic areas with a scar-like appearance, atrophy of tongue papillae, gingival recession and alveolar bone resorption. We report a case of a 13-year-old girl who consulted for ...

INTRODUCTION The clinical presentation of morphea varies from localized plaques to generalized eruptions. Its cause remains unknown and medical treatments have often proved unsatisfactory. Studies have previously shown that improvement of hypertrophic scars and fibrotic skin can be achieved with the use of a 585 nm pulsed dye laser (PDL). METHODS A case of plaque-type morphea was treated with...

Morphea is a cutaneous disorder characterized by excessive collagen deposition. While in almost all cases the sclerosing process exclusively affects the skin, there are anecdotal cases in which associated mucosal involvement has been described. In 1999 McNiff et al. (1) described the first cases of superficial morphea, presenting as pigmented mucosal lesions with minimal cutaneous induration. P...

INTRODUCTION Scleroderma is an autoimmune disease that involves the connective tissue characterized by skin fibrosis, classified as localized and systemic (participation of one or more internal organs). The primary objective of this study is to describe and analyze the clinical and laboratory findings in a group of children diagnosed with scleroderma at a referral hospital. MATERIAL AND METHO...

Morphea is a connective tissue disorder characterized by skin homogenization. No protocol of therapy is agreed upon, due to the variation in disease presentations as well as follows up methods. UVA-1 is an effective therapy due to deep penetration of the skin. The aim of the study was to evaluate the efficacy, safety and side effects of medium dose (30 J/cm ) UVA-1 phototherapy for the treatmen...

Juvenile localized scleroderma, also known as morphea, is the more frequent subtype of scleroderma in childhood. It comprises a group of distinct conditions which involve the skin and subcutaneous tissues. They range from very small plaques of fibrosis involving only the skin, to diseases which may cause significant functional and cosmetic deformity. The most widely used classification divides ...

Generalized morphea is a disease characterized by wide-spread sclerosis of the skin. A 39-year-old man presented with history of multiple pigmented and bound-down plaques on the body along with mucosal involvement. Dermatological examination showed multiple indurated and sclerosed plaques with follicular plugging in few of them and gross thickened eroded and glazed tongue. The constellation of ...