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Common signs and symptoms of golfer's vasculitis include a purple-red rash, welting of the skin, and generalized swelling, typically occurring in the legs above the socks. [3] [5] Symptoms may or may not include a burning sensation, itching or pain. [3] [4] Characteristic signs and symptoms include:
Stasis dermatitis is diagnosed clinically by assessing the appearance of red plaques on the lower legs and the inner side of the ankle. Stasis dermatitis can resemble a number of other conditions, such as cellulitis and contact dermatitis, and at times needs the use of a duplex ultrasound to confirm the diagnosis or if clinical diagnosis alone is not sufficient.
An ulcer is a sore on the skin or a mucous membrane, accompanied by the disintegration of tissue. Ulcers can result in complete loss of the epidermis and often portions of the dermis and even subcutaneous fat. Ulcers are most common on the skin of the lower extremities and in the gastrointestinal tract. An ulcer that appears on the skin is ...
Recurrent aphthous stomatitis (aphthosis, canker sores, recurrent oral aphthae) Recurrent intraoral herpes simplex infection; Smooth tongue (atrophic glossitis, bald tongue, hunter glossitis, moeller) Stomatitis nicotina (nicotine stomatitis, smoker's keratosis, smoker's patches) Torus palatinus; Trumpeter's wart; Vestibular papillomatosis
Tropical ulcer, more commonly known as jungle rot, is a chronic ulcerative skin lesion thought to be caused by polymicrobial infection with a variety of microorganisms, including mycobacteria.
Pressure ulcers can trigger other ailments, cause considerable suffering, and can be expensive to treat. Some complications include autonomic dysreflexia, bladder distension, bone infection, pyarthrosis, sepsis, amyloidosis, anemia, urethral fistula, gangrene and very rarely malignant transformation (Marjolin's ulcer – secondary carcinomas in chronic wounds).
For some people it's hard enough to just sit comfortable with one leg over the other -- and men especially. After Imgur user SickOfFeelingNumb posted the photo , hundreds of people began commenting.
A rash is a change of the skin that affects its color, appearance, or texture.. A rash may be localized in one part of the body, or affect all the skin. Rashes may cause the skin to change color, itch, become warm, bumpy, chapped, dry, cracked or blistered, swell, and may be painful.