Macules Causes, Treatments and More
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Diabetic Dermopathy
Diabetic dermopathy macules, sometimes called diabetic shin spots, occur in almost 50 percent of diabetes cases. Shin spots may appear as an early symptom, but they usually develop as a late complication associated with vascular disease.
Vascular macules are caused by micro- or macrovascular problems underneath the affected skin. They're usually round with a reddish or brown color and less than one centimeter in diameter. Petechiae are very small vascular macules about the size of a pinhead.5Toledo Peral, Cinthya Lourdes, et al. ‘An Application for Skin Macules Characterization Based on a 3-Stage Image-Processing Algorithm for Patients with Diabetes.’ Journal of Healthcare Engineering, Hindawi, 16 Dec. 2018, www.hindawi.com/journals/jhe/2018/9397105/
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