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Scleromyositis: a scleroderma/polymyositis overlap syndrome

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Jablonska, S., Blaszcyk, M. Scleromyositis: a scleroderma/polymyositis overlap syndrome. Clin Rheumatol 17, 465–467 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01451281

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