Naschitz JE, Fields M, Isseroff H, Wolffson V, Yeshurun D. Unilateral necrobiosis lipoidica of the ischemic limb--a case report.
Angiology 2003;
54:239-42. [PMID:
12678201 DOI:
10.1177/000331970305400215]
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Abstract
A 63-year-old diabetic woman presented with new-onset intermittent claudication of the right calf accompanied by ipsilateral necrobiosis lipoidica (NL). The latter presented the typical appearance of oval, indurated plaques, with brownish-red margins and central atrophy, scattered over the right thigh and calf. Arteriography demonstrated severe obstructive lesions on the right femoral artery. NL and claudication spared the left leg. A possible ischemic pathogenesis of NL emerges from this observation and is supported by recent studies in the literature.
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