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Background
Hypothyroidism causes several skin changes. This is one of the most common occurring as a slight thickening of the skin aorund the eyes, nose, cheeks, and distal extremities. Rarely, palmoplantar keratoderma may be present.
Biopsy of the skin reveals a subtle increase of mucin within the dermis, usually around hair follicles and the blood vessels. There is no increase in fibroblasts.
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Weedon D. Weedon's Skin Pathology. Churchill Livingstone. 1997.
Fitzpatrick's Dermatology in General Medicine. 5th Edition. McGraw-Hill. 1999.
Robbins Pathologic Basis of Disease. Sixth Edition. WB Saunders 1999.
Dermal mucinosis-See term.
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