A comparative assessment of the cutis lesions morphologic course pecularities under morphea and systemic sclerosis
The affected cutis tissue samples of the patients with morphea ( n = 35) and systemic sclerosis ( n = 10) have demonstrated similar indices of the pathomorphologic and neuromorphologic lesions and expression of 15 immunologic markers ( CD 3, CD 8, CD 20, CD 79α, CD 68, CD 1α, CD 34, CD 105, α SMA, vimentin, endothelial NOS, type IV collagen, Ki -67, bcl 2, caspasa-3) that allows to assess morphea as a cutis variant of systemic sclerosis in spite of the connective tissue systemic lesion being typical of the latter.