Myxedema, Pretibial, Grave Disease - DermAtlas

Contributor

Bernard Cohen, MD

Diagnosis

myxedema, pretibial Grave disease

Body Site

leg shin foot

Age

52 years

Pigmentation

dark

Organization

confluent

Color

brown

Morphology

plaqulous (plaque / nodule / tumor)

Pattern

symmetric acral (centripetal - extremity predominant)

Comments

This 52-year-old woman with a 5 year history of goiter and Grave disease developed progressive nontender thickening with exuberant folding of the skin on the shins and tops of the feet. She also had nontender subcutaneous nodules on her upper legs, hands, and arms, diffuse thickening of the soft tissue of the hands and fingers and thickening of the soft tissue of the orbits with bilateral proptosis.

Description

dramatic thichening and hyperpigmentation with deep ridges

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2/9/2003 16:58:45

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