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DANIEL M. BACHMAN, M.D.

Arch Dermatol. 1961;83(4):598-605.

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Despite increasing recognition of the systemic nature of generalized scleroderma, the hidebound condition of the skin remains the cardinal clinical manifestation of this disease and the most accessible feature for clinical evaluation. In this report a new method of quantitating skin mobility in scleroderma is described that obviates the need for specialized instrumentation. By this technique, quantitative skin mobility data have been obtained serially from 8 patients with generalized scleroderma at frequent intervals for periods up to 22 months. It is the purpose of this report to present the patterns of skin mobility change in these patients.

Previous methods of measuring the abnormal mechanical properties of the skin in scleroderma employing especially constructed apparatus have not gained wide acceptance. Sodeman and Burch¹ utilized small bakelite cubes glued to the skin with collodion and a pair of calibrated spring calipers to exert a force that stretched the cubes apart. These . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
PORTLAND, OREGON

From the Department of Medicine, University of Oregon Medical School.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Sept. 26, 1960.

Read before the Section on Dermatology at the 109th Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, Miami Beach, Fla., June 13-17, 1960.

This investigation was supported in part by a Research Grant from the Medical Research Foundation of Oregon, a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from the Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation, a Clinical Traineeship AT-82 (R2), and a Research Grant A-3953 (A) from the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases of the National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service.

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