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What is the name of this skin condition?
This is necrobiosis lipoidica, an uncommon skin disorder more common in females, characterised by reddish brown plaques usually located on the shins. Older lesions become yellow, atrophic and telangiectatic. Minor trauma may result in ulceration in longstanding lesions.
What underlying systemic disease does she have?
The young woman illustrated developed insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus several years earlier.
Necrobiosis lipoidica arises in less than 1% of insulin-dependent diabetics. Although it is highly associated with diabetes, only about half the patients presenting with necrobiosis lipoidica have clinical or biochemical glucose intolerance. The pathogenesis is unknown.
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