Case Reports in Dermatology (Dec 2009)

Anetoderma: Is It a Sign of Autoimmunity?

  • Hessa Al Buainain,
  • Mohamed Allam

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1159/000265699
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 1
pp. 100 – 104

Abstract

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Anetoderma is a rare elastolytic disorder characterized by circumscribed areas of flaccid skin due to the loss of elastic tissue in the dermis. Primary anetoderma is frequently observed in patients with autoimmune diseases or abnormalities especially with antiphospholipid antibodies with or without antiphospholipid syndrome. In this case report we discuss a patient with primary anetoderma with positive antithyroid peroxidase antibodies, which is consistent with autoimmune thyroiditis.

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