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Scleroderma (from the Greek words "sklerosis" meaning hardness, and "derma" meaning skin), literally means hard skin. Though it is often referred to as if it were a single disease, scleroderma is really a symptom of a group of diseases that involve the abnormal growth of connective tissue...

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