Polyetiologic, chronic inflammatory disease of variable etiology that may be associated with superficial or deep sclerosis of the dermis and/or subcutis, as well as internal organs.
The disease symptoms may show clinical-morphological signs of circumscritic scleroderma or systemic scleroderma, thus mimicking them. The most common case of pseudoscleroderma is indurations in chronic venous insufficiency, CVI .