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Definition of the Metabolic Syndrome
This disease presents as brown to gray-black
papillomatous cutaneous thickening in the flexural areas, including the posterolateral neck, axillae, groin, and abdominal folds among patients with diabetes mellitus
A. Sclerema diabeticorum
B. Necrobiosis lipoidica
C. Bullous diabeticorum
D. Limited joint mobility and scleroderma-like syndrome
E. Acanthosis nigricans
E
This disease presents with tightness and thickening of the skin and periarticular connective tissue of the fingers, resulting in a painless loss of joint mobility with initial involvement of the DIP joints of the 5th digit among patients with diabetes mellitus
A. Sclerema diabeticorum
B. Necrobiosis lipoidica
C. Bullous diabeticorum
D. Limited joint mobility and scleroderma-like syndrome
E. Acanthosis nigricans
D
This disease presents with painless, non-pruritic, bullae on the lower extremities, usually the toes, feet, and shins, arising in normal skin among patients with diabetes mellitus.
A. Sclerema diabeticorum
B. Necrobiosis lipoidica
C. Bullous diabeticorum
D. Limited joint mobility and scleroderma-like syndrome
E. Acanthosis nigricans
C
This presents with insidious onset of painless, symmetric induration and thickening of the skin on the upper back and neck spreading to the face, shoulders, and anterior torso among patients with diabetes mellitus.
A. Sclerema diabeticorum
B. Necrobiosis lipoidica
C. Bullous diabeticorum
D. Limited joint mobility and scleroderma-like syndrome
E. Acanthosis nigricans
A
This presents with one to several sharply demarcated yellow-brown plaques on the anterior pretibial region among patients with diabetes mellitus.
A. Sclerema diabeticorum
B. Necrobiosis lipoidica
C. Bullous diabeticorum
D. Limited joint mobility and scleroderma-like syndrome
E. Acanthosis nigricans
B