"Necrobiosis Lipoidica" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A degenerative disease of the dermal connective tissue characterized by the development of erythematous papules or nodules in the pretibial area. The papules form plaques covered with telangiectatic vessels. More than half of the affected patients have diabetes.
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D009335
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C17.300.200.495.545 C17.800.550.545 C17.800.849.495 C18.452.880.495
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Granuloma annulare and necrobiosis lipoidica tissue reactions as a manifestation of systemic disease. Hum Pathol. 1996 Jan; 27(1):50-6.