Collagen disease

Collagen disease
Term	Collagen disease
Short definition	collagen disease - (pronounced) (KAH-luh-jen dih-ZEEZ) term formerly used to describe chronic connective tissue diseases (eg, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, and systemic sclerosis) but now considered more appropriate for diseases associated with defects in collagen, which is a component of connective tissue is tissue
Type	Cancer terms
Specialty	Oncology
Language	English
Source	NCI
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collagen disease - (pronounced) (KAH-luh-jen dih-ZEEZ) term formerly used to describe chronic connective tissue diseases (eg, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, and systemic sclerosis) but now considered more appropriate for diseases associated with defects in collagen, which is a component of connective tissue is tissue

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