Commentary Open Access
Volume 2 | Issue 2 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.46439/rheumatology.2.016
Systemic sclerosis and challenges in COVID-19 pandemic
Hoda Kavosi1,*, Zahra Tamartash1, Sepehr nayebi rad2, Reza Atef-Yekta3
- 1Rheumatology Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran
- 2Students' Scientific Research Center (SSRC), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- 3Department of Anaesthesiology at Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Corresponding Author
Hoda Kavosi, h-kavosi@sina.tums.ac.ir
Received Date: October 11, 2021
Accepted Date: November 05, 2021
Kavosi H, Tamartash Z, Rad SN, Atef-Yekta R. Systemic sclerosis and challenges in COVID-19 pandemic. Curr Rheumatol Res 2021. 2(2):38-40.
Copyright: © 2021 Kavosi H, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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