Most people don't need surgery for their scleroderma. You may need it if your hands or joints are badly bent, or to fix serious skin problems or scars.

Limited cutaneous scleroderma affects the skin slowly over time. It’s typically confined to your fingers, hands, lower arms and legs, usually below the knees. Diffuse cutaneous scleroderma takes ...

Taitia Shelow and Caroline Graettinger get ready to face another day grappling with a rare autoimmune disease called ...