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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">jkra</journal-id>
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<journal-title>The Journal of the Korean Rheumatism Association</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title>J Korean Rheum Assoc</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="ppub">1226-8070</issn>
<issn pub-type="epub">2233-4718</issn>
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<publisher-name>The Korean Rheumatism Association</publisher-name>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.4078/jkra.2008.15.3.277</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">jkra-15-277</article-id>
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<subject>Original Article</subject>
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<article-title>A Case of Systemic Scleroderma in Triple X Syndrome</article-title>
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<name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Lee</surname><given-names>Sang Yeob</given-names></name>
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<aff id="aff01-jkra-15-277">Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Dong-A University, Busan, <country>Korea</country></aff>
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<pub-date pub-type="ppub">
<month>09</month>
<year>2008</year>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>20</day>
<month>09</month>
<year>2008</year>
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<volume>15</volume>
<issue>3</issue>
<fpage>277</fpage>
<lpage>281</lpage>
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<date date-type="received">
<day>16</day><month>07</month><year>2008</year></date>
<date date-type="accepted">
<day>03</day><month>09</month><year>2008</year></date>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 2008 The Korean Rheumatism Association</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2008</copyright-year>
<license><license-p>This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0</ext-link>) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</license-p></license>
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<title>Abstract</title>
<p>Systemic scleroderma is a collagen-vascular disease of unknown etiology. Although the pathogenesis is poorly understood, disease progression involves the vasculature, the immune system and extracellular matrix deposition. systemic scleroderma occurs 3&#x223C;8 times more frequently in women than men and pathogenesis of systemic scleroderma may be related to female X chromosome. but the role of X chromosome in autoimmunity has not been illustrated yet. Most recently reports, the disturbances in X chromosome and inactivation of X chromosome may be the cause of autoimmunity in abnormal sex chromosome syndrome. Also autoimmune diseases such as systemic scleroderma is increased in Turner&#x0027;s syndrome. the author had experienced a woman with systemic scleroderma who had been diagnosed to triple X syndrome due to infertility in the past. which was very rare case and not reported yet. So the author report a case of systemic scleroderma with triple X syndrome with literature review.</p>
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<kwd>Systemic scleroderma</kwd>
<kwd>Triple X syndrome</kwd>
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<caption xml:lang="en"><p>The figure shows salt and pepper pigmentation on the neck skin.</p></caption>
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<caption xml:lang="en"><p>Blood karyotyping study shows 47 XXX and confirms the diagnosis of Triple X syndrome.</p></caption>
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