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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Anahita Deylamsalehi, M.D.[2]
Overview
Patients with [disease name] usually appear [general appearance]. Physical examination of patients with [disease name] is usually remarkable for [finding 1], [finding 2], and [finding 3].
Physical Examination
Physical examination of patients with acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans is usually remarkable for skin changes such as blue-red discoloration, thinning, shinning and atrophy.
Vital Signs
Vital signs of patients with acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans is usually normal.
Skin
The following are some of the findings in skin examination of acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans's patients:[1][2][3][4]
- Blue, red or brown discoloration
- Darkening of skin
- Hypopigmentation
- Indurated plaques
- Thinning
- Shining (also addressed as "cigarette paper skin")
- Visible veins
- Wrinkles
- Swelling
- Peeling
- Fibrotic nodules (commonly on bony prominences, such as ulnar or tibial areas)
- Fibrosis
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Neck
- Neck examination of patients with acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans is usually normal.
Lungs
- Pulmonary examination of patients with acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans is usually normal.
Heart
- Cardiovascular examination of patients with acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans is usually normal.
Abdomen
- Abdominal examination of patients with acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans is usually normal.
Back
- Back examination of patients with acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans is usually normal.
Genitourinary
- Genitourinary examination of patients with acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans is usually normal.
Neuromuscular
- Neuromuscular examination of patients with acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans is usually normal.
Extremities
- Extremities of patients with acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans are the most common area of skin involvement.
- Moreover patients with acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans can develop joint deformity.[1]
- Physical examination of some patients may reveal ulnar bands.
- Fibrotic nodules could be seen on bony prominences, such as tibia or ulna.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Ogrinc K, Maraspin V, Lusa L, Cerar Kišek T, Ružić-Sabljić E, Strle F (2021). "Acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans: clinical and microbiological characteristics of a cohort of 693 Slovenian patients". J Intern Med. doi:10.1111/joim.13266. PMID 33550695 Check
|pmid=value (help). - ↑ Kim, MyungHwa; Choi, MiSoo; Seong, GiHyun; Park, MyeongJin; Park, Minkee; Hong, SeungPhil; Park, ByungCheol (2020). "Rapidly progressing generalized morphea with high lyme disease titer". Indian Journal of Dermatology. 65 (5): 432. doi:10.4103/ijd.IJD_279_18. ISSN 0019-5154.
- ↑ Nadal, D; Gundelfinger, R; Flueler, U; Boltshauser, E (1988). "Acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans". Archives of Disease in Childhood. 63 (1): 72–74. doi:10.1136/adc.63.1.72. ISSN 0003-9888.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Muller, Kurt E. (2012). "Damage of Collagen and Elastic Fibres by Borrelia Burgdorferi – Known and New Clinical and Histopathological Aspects". The Open Neurology Journal. 6 (1): 179–186. doi:10.2174/1874205X01206010179. ISSN 1874-205X.