171 Necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum
Salient features
Advanced-level questions
What treatment is available for such lesions?
Flare-ups are frequent. No treatment is completely effective.
What are the other skin lesions seen in diabetes?
• Chronic pyogenic infections and carbuncles (indicating poor control)
• Eruptive xanthomata (from hypertriglyceridaemia associated with poor glycaemic control) (p. 625)
• Lipoatrophy and lipohypertrophy (p. 609)
• Acanthosis nigricans (p. 605)
• ‘Pebbles’ on the dorsal aspect of the fingers (Postgrad Med 2000;107:207–10)