ACR Meeting Abstracts
Abstract Number: 023 • Pediatric Rheumatology Symposium 2020
Suzanne Li1, Aashka Patel 2, Elena Pope 3, Thomas Mason 4, Vidya Sivaraman 5, Fatma Dedeoglu 6, Kathryn Torok 7, Katie Stewart 8, Gloria Higgins 9, C. Egla Rabinovich 10, Robert Fuhlbrigge 11, Maria Ibarra 12, Sandy Hong 13, Polly Ferguson 14, Mara Becker 15, Brian Feldman 16 and Ronald Laxer 17 for the CARRA investigators, 1Joseph M. Sanzari Children's Hospital Hackensack Meridian Health, Hackensack, 2Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, 3Hospital For Sick Kids, Toronto, Canada, 4Rochester, 5Division of Rheumatology, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Bexley, 6Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, 7Pediatric Rheumatology, Univ of Pittsburgh Med Ctr, Pittsburgh, 8UT Southwestern, Dallas, 9Nationwide Childrens Hospital/ The Ohio State University, Columbus, 10Duke University Hospital, Durham, 11University of Colorado, Aurora, 12Children's Mercy Kansas City, Kansas City, 13University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital, Iowa City, 14University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, 15Duke University Medical Center/Duke Clinical Research Institute, Chapel Hill, 16The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada, 17The Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Background/Purpose: Localized scleroderma (LS) is a chronic inflammatory and fibrosing disease that causes both cutaneous and extracutaneous (EC) damage. EC involvement (ECI) is common in…