vinyl chloride disease

vinyl chloride disease
acro-osteolysis resulting from exposure to vinyl chloride, characterized by Raynaud phenomenon, skin changes resembling scleroderma on the backs of the hands and on the forearms, and bony changes affecting the terminal phalanges of the fingers and toes, the styloid processes of the radius and ulna, the sacroiliac joints, and the patellae.

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