TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Chapter 206. Scleroderma A1 - Zulian, Francesco A2 - Rudolph, Colin D. A2 - Rudolph, Abraham M. A2 - Lister, George E. A2 - First, Lewis R. A2 - Gershon, Anne A. PY - 2011 T2 - Rudolph's Pediatrics, 22e AB - Juvenile scleroderma syndromes are multisystem autoimmune rheumatic diseases whose unifying characteristic is the development of hard skin before age 16. They can be separated into two main categories: those with diffuse skin sclerosis involving many sites of the body together with internal organ involvement (juvenile systemic sclerosis [JSSc]) and those with circumscribed skin induration but no vascular or internal organ involvement (juvenile localized scleroderma [JLS]). SN - PB - The McGraw-Hill Companies CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/04/19 UR - accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=7019700 ER -