title: Scleredema--an uncommon cause of swelling in a child--a case report and review of the literature.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Body swelling in a child is a common symptom. Apart from systemic causes like renal, hepatic, and cardiac, rarely such a swelling may be caused by dermatologic conditions.
  
  
  METHODS
  A child presented with swelling of the body which was subsequently diagnosed as scleredema, a rare and benign dermatologic condition. Scleredema can be confused with similar sounding terms like scleroderma and scleromyxedema.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The case is presented to highlight scleredema as a rare cause of body swelling in paediatrics and to differentiate it from similar sounding rare terms like scleroderma and scleromyxedema.
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatrics, Nepalese Army Institute of Health Sciences, Shree Birendra Hospital, Swayambhu, Chhauni, Kathmandu, Nepal. kalmaan@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Bikash
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Shrestha
authors.forename: Arun Kumar
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Neopane
authors.forename: Rajesh
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Panth
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012592:Scleredema Adultorum / Q000209:etiology*