Acute scleredema with fatal outcome.
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.
Shah
P K
PK
Department of Internal Medicine, Dr SN Medical College, Hospitals, Jodhpur.
Lakhotia
M
M
Jain
S K
SK
Meena
R C
RC
D000208:Acute Disease; D000293:Adolescent; D002423:Cause of Death; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012592:Scleredema Adultorum / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*