Telangiectasia

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• Synonyms

  • Telangiectasis

• Causes

  • High oestrogen
  • Alcoholic liver disease
  • Chronic liver disease
  • Thyrotoxicosis
  • Hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia
  • CREST syndrome
  • Xeroderma pigmentosa
  • Poikiloderma atrophicans vasculare
  • Ataxia telangiectasia
  • Angiokeratoma corporis diffusum
  • Urticaria pigmentosa
  • Bloom syndrome

• Parents

  • Skin signs on observation

• Children

  • Nail-fold telangiectasia

• Treatments

  • Laser therapy

• Description

  • "Post-capillary venule dilatation"