title: Acute scleredema with fatal outcome.
abstract: Death due to scleredema is rare. We report a patient with scleredema, which had an acute onset and rapid progression, leading to death within a month. Such an acute course terminating in fatality has not been described earlier.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Dr SN Medical College, Hospitals, Jodhpur.
authors.forename: P K
authors.initials: PK
authors.lastname: Shah
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lakhotia
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Jain
authors.forename: R C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Meena
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000293:Adolescent; D002423:Cause of Death; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012592:Scleredema Adultorum / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*