Werner’s syndrome may be lost in the shadow of the scleroderma

• DOI: 10.1007/s00296-012-2564-4
• Publication Date: 2012-11-05T10:11:24Z
• Authors: Emel Gonullu; Nazife Şule Yaşar...; Timuçin Kaşifoğlu; Cengiz Korkmaz
• Keywords: Adult; Male; 0301 basic medicine; Scleroderma, Systemic; Middle Aged; Skin Aging; 3. Good health; Diagnosis, Differential; 03 medical and health sciences; Predictive Value of Tests; Humans; Female; Werner Syndrome; Diagnostic Errors; Biomarkers; Skin

We describe three patients with Werner's syndrome (WS), two of whom had been mistakenly diagnosed as having scleroderma. We would like to discuss briefly the importance of differentiation of these two disorders from each other.