ECE2014 Poster Presentations Clinical case reports Thyroid/Others (72 abstracts)
1Nigde State Hospital Endocrinology and Metabolism Department, Nigde, Turkey, 2Nigde State Hospital Dermatology Department, Nigde, Turkey, 3Nigde State Hospital Pathology Department, Nigde, Turkey.
Scleredema diabeticorum is an infrequently seen connective tissue disorder that effects upper part of the body. The affected skin is thick, hard and painless. A 51-year-old male Type 2 diabetic patient was referred to our department for infected foot ulcer. On physical examination erythematous, hard, painless, wide-reaching skin lesion on his upper back and shoulders except from draining diabetic foot ulcer on his right foot first and second fingers. Multipl subcutanously insulin therapy was started because of poor regulated diabetes and intravenously antibiotherapy was performed to the patient because of infected diabetic foot ulcer. A biopsy was done to the lesion to distinguish scleredema.