A scleroderma case with coexisting hashimoto's thyroiditis and polymyositis

Abstract

Sistemik skleroz etkilenen organlarda fibrozis ve mikrovasküler hasarla karakterize bir hastalıktır. Herne kadar SSc tek başına görülebilse de SLE, RA, inflamataur kas ' hastalığı, kronik tiroidit ve Sjögren sendromu ile birlikte over-lap yapabilmektedir. Bu makalede Hashimoto tiroiditi ve polimiyozitle birlite olan bir skleroderma vakası literatür ışığında gözden geçirildi.

Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a generalized disorder that is characterized by fibrosis and microvascular injury in affected organs. Although SSc may show a single presentation without any other disease, one may see any of the aforementioned man-ifestations of SSc with features ofSLE, RA, inflammatory mus-cle disease , chronic thyroiditis or Sjögren 's syndrome.In this article a case -with scleroderma with coexisting Hashimoto's thyroiditis, polymyositis is presented and literature is reviewed.