Q-My son was recently diagnosed as having a rare skin disease called morphea. He has three lumps on his back now. Can you tell me what causes them, and whether this will ever turn to cancer? A-Morphea ...

Glenda's middle-aged ankles still hurt badly. I have been treating morphea enveloping her ankles for several years. With therapies including methotrexate, mycophenolate mofetil, clobetasol, ...

Q-My son was recently diagnosed as having a rare skin disease called morphea. He has three lumps on his back now. Can you tell me what causes it, and whether this will turn to cancer? A-Morphea, known ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients treated with sequential vs. single grafting saw higher improvement in skin damage. On the other hand, ...

(HealthDay News) – Patients with localized scleroderma (morphea) often experience delay in diagnosis and variability in treatment that is based more on the specialty of the provider than disease ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Standard of care treatments for morphea yielded reasonable success over long-term follow-up, according to a ...

Localized scleroderma, as the term denotes, is localized to the skin on the hands and face. It is characterized by slow progression and rarely transforms to the systemic type. Localized scleroderma is ...

Background. A previously healthy 50-year-old man presented with thickening and hardening of the skin on his trunk, neck and upper extremities that had started after the appearance of a 5 cm web-like ...

An analysis of more than 100 patients has confirmed for the first time that darker-skinned patients benefit as those with lighter skin when given light therapy for morphea and related diseases, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Background Morphea can lead to considerable cosmetic or functional impairment; nevertheless, health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is rarely ...