Acquired disfigurement from a medical illness: assessing body image concerns in patients with systemic sclerosis

Systemic sclerosis or scleroderma (SSc) is a rare, chronic, autoimmune connective tissue disease characterized by significant visible disfigurements to socially relevant body parts, such as the mouth, face, and hands. There is no cure for scleroderma and treatments do little to alleviate the disfigu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jewett, Lisa
Other Authors: Brett David Thombs (Supervisor)
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: McGill University 2011
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Online Access:http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=103655