Diagnostic criteria, severity classification and guidelines of localized scleroderma.
- Authors:
- Yoshihide Asano,
- Manabu Fujimoto,
- Osamu Ishikawa,
- Shinichi Sato,
- Masatoshi Jinnin,
- Kazuhiko Takehara,
- Minoru Hasegawa,
- Toshiyuki Yamamoto,
- Hironobu Ihn
J Dermatol 2018 Apr 23. Epub 2018 Apr 23.
Department of Dermatology and Plastic Surgery, Faculty of Life Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan.
We established diagnostic criteria and severity classification of localized scleroderma because there is no established diagnostic criteria or widely accepted severity classification of the disease. Also, there has been no clinical guideline for localized scleroderma, so we established its clinical guideline ahead of all over the world. In particular, the clinical guideline was established by clinical questions based on evidence-based medicine according to the New Minds Clinical Practice Guideline Creation Manual (version 1. Read More