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Fibrosis
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Reactive, mostly as a result of chronic inflammation, cell-poor proliferation of collagenous connective tissue (see also fibrosis = cell-rich proliferation of connective tissue), which leads to clinically proven tissue hardening.
Occurs, for example, in scleroderma, scleromyxoedema, scleroedema adultorum, hypodermitis.
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