RGD uses the Human Disease Ontology (DO, https://disease-ontology.org/) for disease curation across species. RGD automatically downloads each new release of the ontology on a monthly basis. Some additional terms which are required for RGD's curation purposes but are not currently covered in the official version of DO have been added. As corresponding terms are added to DO, these custom terms are retired and the DO terms substituted in existing annotations and subsequently used for curation.
A term used to describe a variety of localized asymmetrical SKIN thickening that is similar to those of SYSTEMIC SCLERODERMA but without the disease features in the multiple internal organs and BLOOD VESSELS. Lesions may be characterized as patches or plaques (morphea), bands (linear), or nodules.
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Circumscribed Scleroderma; Frontal Linear Scleroderma en Coup de Sabre; Linear Scleroderma; Morphea; Morpheas; circumscribed or localised scleroderma; circumscribed or localized scleroderma; localised morphea; localised morphoea; localised scleroderma; localized morphea; localized sclerodermas