diabetic dermopathy

diabetic dermopathy
cutaneous lesions on the shins, manifestations of diabetes mellitus, consisting of discolored, mildly ulcerated or cicatricial lesions; the cause is apparently a type of angiitis of small cutaneous blood vessels. Called also shin spots. The term is sometimes used more broadly to denote other cutaneous lesions of diabetes mellitus, such as bullosis diabeticorum and necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum.

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