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2013 Classification Criteria for Systemic Sclerosis: An American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism Collaborative Initiative

Arthritis & Rheumatism · 2013 · Vol. 65(11) · pp. 2737–2747

F.H.J. van den Hoogen✉(Radboud University Medical Center)Dinesh Khanna(University of Michigan)Jaap Fransen(Radboud University Nijmegen)Sindhu R. Johnson(Toronto Western Hospital)Murray Baron(Jewish General Hospital)Alan Tyndall(Felix Platter-Hospital)Marco Matucci‐Cerinic(University of Florence)Raymond P. Naden(Auckland City Hospital)Thomas A. Medsger(University of Pittsburgh)Patrícia Carreira(Hospital Universitario 12 De Octubre)Gabriela Riemekasten(German Rheumatism Research Centre)Philip J. Clements(University of California, Los Angeles)Christopher P. Denton(University College London)Oliver Distler(University Hospital of Zurich)Yannick Allanore(Hôpital Cochin)Daniel E. Furst(University of California, Los Angeles)Armando Gabrielli(Marche Polytechnic University)Maureen D. Mayes(The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston)Jacob M. van Laar(Newcastle University)James R. Seibold(Scleroderma Foundation)László Czirják(University of Pecs)Virginia Steen(Georgetown University)Murat İnanç(Istanbul University)Otylia Kowal‐Bielecka(Medical University of Białystok)Ulf Müller‐Ladner(Kerckhoff Klinik)Gabriele Valentini(University of Naples Federico II)Douglas J. Veale(St. Vincent's University Hospital)Madelon C Vonk(Radboud University Nijmegen)Ulrich A. Walker(University of Basel)Leland W.K. Chung(Stanford University)David H. Collier(Denver Health Medical Center)Mary Ellen Csuka(Medical College of Wisconsin)Barri J. Fessler(University of Alabama at Birmingham)Serena Guiducci(University of Florence)Ariane L. Herrick(National Health Service)Vivien Hsu(Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey)Sergio A. Jiménez(Thomas Jefferson University)Bashar Kahaleh(University of Toledo)Peter A. Merkel(Boston University)S. Sierakowski(Medical University of Białystok)Richard M. Silver(Medical University of South Carolina)Robert W. Simms(Boston University)John Varga(Northwestern University)Janet Pope(St Joseph's Health Care)

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Abstract

The ACR/EULAR classification criteria for SSc performed better than the 1980 ACR criteria for SSc and should allow for more patients to be classified correctly as having the disease.

Systemic Sclerosis and Related Diseases Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Inflammatory Myopathies and DermatomyositisMedicineRheumatismRheumatologyInternal medicineScleroderma (fungus)DermatologyPhysical therapyPathology