The very fact that 35-year-old, five years ago, the left side of the face beneath the skin of their zygomatic unexplained depression began to shrink, and as time goes on, the sunken part shaped like a giant tadpole small brook, about 2 centimeters in diameter at its widest point, serious facial appearance. An inspection turned out to be suffering from scleroderma, through the abdominal flap yesterday, she finally has a flat face.

Chen lived in Lukou year old woman over sixty years old, in front of the Ministry began a decade slight swelling, a cold finger will pale purple, was not too concerned, gradually began to finger skin slight pain, stiffness , go to the hospital, the doctor did not give the exact diagnosis. Until the old lady body skin began to harden, a movement appeared chest tightness, shortness of breath, this pay attention to it, after the diagnosis, Mrs. Chen is suffering from scleroderma.

Scleroderma now known as systemic sclerosis. As the name suggests, is to harden the skin disease. Changes in the skin is a sign of systemic sclerosis symptoms. However, the severity varies greatly, the light only local skin hardening and calcification, there may be serious systemic sclerosis extensive skin thickening. Experts, scleroderma causes closely related to genetic and immune disorders, female incidence rate of 4-5 times that of men. According to current studies have shown that may be associated with genetic, environmental, infectious and other factors. Because of the clinical disease is less common, grass-roots medical staff lack of knowledge often leads to misdiagnosis, but not early, aggressive treatment such as scleroderma, left unchecked, the light disability, disfigurement, severe life-threatening, will give patients and heavy financial and psychological burden their families.