Endocrine Disorders - Skin Manifestations

Question 1

Related Dermatoses of Addison’s Disease

Answer 1

Generalized hyperpigmentation or limited to skin folds [bronze], buccal mucosa, and scars

Question 2

Related Dermatoses of Cushing’s Syndrome

Answer 2

Moon facies, purple striae, acne, hyperpigmentation, hirsutism, atrophic skin with telangiectasia

Question 3

Related Skin Infections of Diabetes Mellitus

Answer 3

Infections (e.g. boils, carbuncles, candidiasis, S. aureus, dermatophytoses, tinea pedis and cruris, infectious
eczematoid dermatitis),

Question 4

Related Dermatoses of Hyperthyroidism.

skin, hair and nails

Answer 4

Moist, warm skin, seborrhea, acne, nail atrophy, hyperpigmentation, toxic alopecia, pretibial myxedema,
acropachy, onycholysis

Question 5

Related Dermatoses of Hypothyroidism

Answer 5

Cool, dry, scaly, thickened, hyperpigmented skin; toxic alopecia with dry, coarse hair, brittle nails,
myxedema, loss of lateral 1/3 eyebrows

Question 6

Related Dermatoses (no infectious) of Diabetes Mellitus

Answer 6

pruritus, eruptive xanthomas, necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum, granuloma
annulare, diabetic foot, diabetic bullae, acanthosis nigricans, calciphylaxis