Myxoedema tuberosumE03.8

Author:Prof. Dr. med. Peter Altmeyer

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Last updated on: 29.10.2020

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DefinitionThis section has been translated automatically.

Differently used and therefore misleading term for the large-nodular variant of a circumscriptum myxoedema or diffuse myxoedema, as well as for the myxoedema circumscriptum symmetricum praetibiale. Also incorrectly used for lichen myxoedematosus and scleromyxedema.

Clinical featuresThis section has been translated automatically.

Tuberous or pad-like, coarse, circumscribed, brownish-yellow, reddish to blue-reddish, partly confluent knots of different sizes on the forehead, earlobes, elbows, back of the hands and neck.

TherapyThis section has been translated automatically.

S.u. and the respective clinical picture.

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Last updated on: 29.10.2020