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We investigated the relationship between HFUS with both mRSS and dermal collagen.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods.<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Skin thickness (ST), echogenicity, and novel shear wave elastography (SWE) were assessed in 53 patients with SSc and 15 healthy controls (HCs) at the finger, hand, forearm, and abdomen. The relationship between HFUS parameters with mRSS (n = 53) and dermal collagen (10 patients with SSc and 10 HCs) was investigated. Intraobserver repeatability of HFUS was calculated using intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results.<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>HFUS assessment of ST (hand\/forearm) and SWE (finger\/hand) correlated with local mRSS at some sites. Subclinical abnormalities in ST, echogenicity, and SWE were present in clinically uninvolved SSc skin. Additionally, changes in echogenicity and SWE were sometimes apparent despite objectively normal ST on HFUS. ST, SWE, and local mRSS correlated strongly with collagen quantification (r = 0.697, 0.709, 0.649, respectively). Intraobserver repeatability was high for all HFUS parameters (ICCs for ST = 0.946\u20130.978; echogenicity = 0.648\u20130.865; and SWE = 0.953\u20130.973).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion.<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Our data demonstrate excellent reproducibility and reassuring convergent validity with dermal collagen content. Detection of subclinical abnormalities is an additional benefit of HFUS. 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