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Med Cutan Iber Lat Am 2010; 38 (2)

Progressive essential telangiectasia: a rare disorder

Perdomo G, González-López MA, González-Vela MC, López-Escobar M, Yáñez S, Fernández-Llaca H, Val-Bernal JF

Language: Spanish
References: 15
Page: 84-87
PDF size: 243.30 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Progressive essential telangiectasia (PET) is a rare skin disorder that affects mainly middle-age women. It is clinically characterized by the development of telangiectases which first appear on distal lower extremities and progressively spread to the trunk and upper limbs. We report a new case of PET in a 53-year-old woman. Differential diagnosis should be performed with other diseases characterized by the development of multiple telangiectasias.


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