Morphaea-like cutaneous changes in a patient with systemic scleroderma.

A case of systemic scleroderma with peculiar morphaea-like lesions is reported. The patient at first started with typical acrosclerosis, some parts of which later became softened and apparently resumed the appearance of normal skin, so that morphaea-like cutaneous plaques which remained hard, were soft. These changes were surrounded by erythema resembling the 'lilac ring' as noted in characteristic active lesions of morphaea.