Table 1

Mononuclear cell infiltration of skin lesions from patients with SSc. Positive cells were counted three times and expressed as a mean number per high power field (×400)

Patients	Disease duration (months)	No of CD3+ cells/HPF	No of CD69+ cells/ HPF	No of CD68+ cells/HPF
1	60	7	3	61
2	18	180	14	52
3	23	26	25	56
4	166	16	13	99
5	38	112	47	68
6	17	13	1	47
7	18	210	35	45
8	228	21	19	84
9	39	9	2	141
10	22	140	37	120
11	38	55	4	70
12	51	17	12	53
13	57	56	7	102
14	94	52	40	120
17	45	20	15	34
18	36	14	2	52
19	12	70	45	108
Mean		59.9	18.9	77.2