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Specialty. Dermatology. Frictional alopecia is the loss of hair that is caused by rubbing of the hair, follicles, or skin around the follicle. [1] The most typical example of this is the loss of ankle hair among people who wear socks constantly for years. [2] The hair may not grow back even years after the source of friction has ended.
Livedo reticularis is a common skin finding consisting of a mottled reticulated vascular pattern that appears as a lace-like purplish discoloration of the skin. [ 1] The discoloration is caused by reduction in blood flow through the arterioles that supply the cutaneous capillaries, resulting in deoxygenated blood showing as blue discoloration.
Blaschko's lines, also called the lines of Blaschko, are lines of normal cell development in the skin. These lines are only visible in those with a mosaic [ 1][ 2][ 3] skin condition or in chimeras where different cell lines contain different genes. These lines may express different amounts of melanin, [ 4] or become visible due to a differing ...
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It’s no wonder that multitudes of Amazon shoppers are fans of the fast-acting collagen cream. “This moisturizer absorbs well and makes my skin feel young and healthy,” said one nearly 60 ...
Lipodermatosclerosis. Other names. Chronic panniculitis with lipomembranous changes, [ 1] hypodermitis sclerodermiformis, sclerosing panniculitis, stasis panniculitis [ 2]: 489. Chronic venous insufficiency. Specialty. Dermatology. Lipodermatosclerosis is a skin and connective tissue disease. It is a form of lower extremity panniculitis, [ 3 ...
In people with Cushing syndrome, “too much cortisol leads to a more rounded face, pinkish red cheeks, thinner skin with easy bruises, a puffy neck, and a worsening upper back hump,” Dr. Ghalib ...
Severe cases of excoriation disorder can cause life-threatening injuries. For example, in one reported case, a woman picked a hole through the bridge of her nose, which required surgery to fix, and a 48-year-old woman picked through the skin on her neck, exposing the carotid artery. Pain in the neck or back can arise due to prolonged bent-over ...